Professor of Biology<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beth Scaglione Sewell has built her career around two missions: researching diseases and training the medical professionals who treat those diseases. As Valpo\u2019s Pre-Medical Arts Fellow for the past few years, she got to do both simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professor Scaglione Sewell used the fellowship award to fund collaborative research with students. Together, they investigated how certain colon cells\u2019 genes are altered as the cells become cancerous. The hope is that more information about colon cancer cells will lead to earlier diagnoses \u2014 and that exposure to research will improve students\u2019 scientific abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn this program, like anywhere in the department, we\u2019re trying to develop really good scientists. A good scientist is going to be a good physician,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of the students Professor Scaglione Sewell has worked with under the fellowship, all but one have gone on to medical school. She also advised more than 50 pre-medical arts students and currently teaches courses on anatomy, physiology, and cancer biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For all of this work, Professor Scaglione Sewell received the 2011 Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award. She says that it was a tremendous honor to stand in front of her colleagues and receive that acknowledgement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI really do look at this as a vocation, a call. It is gratifying that my service is also preparing students to serve others in a healthcare profession,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That call to service is what encouraged Professor Scaglione Sewell to come to Valpo and what motivates her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI wake up in the morning and think, \u2018I get to go to work today. I get to do something I really enjoy\u2019,\u201d she says. \u201cTo get that award too, it\u2019s like extra chocolate sprinkles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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