\u201cScience is not about head knowledge, it\u2019s about discovery, process and experimentation,\u201d MacKay said. \u201cOur workshop gives students a chance to see an option of what graduate school looks like and make a more informed decision if graduate school is something they could see themselves doing. This is really gratifying because I want to train up the next generation of world-changers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Students worked hands-on in the Binghamton lab with state-of-art equipment and learned about the structure, function, and recognition of RNA – a key biomolecule that is relevant to the understanding of genetics and disease.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the biggest advantages of any workshop like this is getting to hear and talk about science in new and exciting areas,\u201d Tristan Mabee \u201924 said. \u201cThis trip helped me cement my understanding of the context and larger value of the research I perform at Etown.\u201d<\/p>\n MacKay and his students were also able to take a research sample that they prepared at Etown and do further work on it at the workshop. With this sample, they were able to prepare two new peptide nucleic acid oligonucleotides that will be used to probe binding with RNA.<\/p>\n \u201cThis made the work we did more relevant and exciting compared to canned experiments that we had done in the past,\u201d MacKay said.<\/p>\n Students also got to spend time with graduate students.<\/p>\n \u201cThis trip helped me understand how graduate school works and what it looks like,\u201d Angelina Giglio-Tos, \u201925 said. \u201cOne of my favorite parts about the workshop was meeting the graduate students and going into the lab with them.\u201d<\/p>\n This most recent RNA Workshop took place for the first time over the summer, which offered Etown Summer Creative Arts and Research Program (SCARP) participants an opportunity to kick off their summer research with an in-depth experience with science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A group of Elizabethtown College students kicked off the summer by traveling to Binghamton University with A.C. Baugher Professor of Chemistry James A. Mackay for the fifth annual Binghamton University\/Elizabethtown College Ribonucleic Acids (RNA) workshop. The three-day workshop was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and allowed Etown students to learn about MacKay\u2019s research on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":14819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,7],"tags":[1760,1761,1770,1123,197,1350,1517,1762,302,1766,1767,1765,329,1764,1768,1769,1763],"class_list":["post-14817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus-community","tag-binghamton","tag-binghamton-university","tag-chem","tag-chemistry","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-etown-college","tag-graduate-research","tag-james-mackay","tag-nucleic-acid","tag-olibionucleotides","tag-peptides","tag-research","tag-rna","tag-rna-binding","tag-rna-workshop","tag-ungergraduate-research","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14817"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14875,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817\/revisions\/14875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2023\/06\/C-James-MacKay-225x300.jpg\")
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