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Mathematics, Trout Creek, New York
“Hartwick is a very accepting place, of everyone. And you get past the stairs! The staff is amazing, everyone looks at you with an open heart. I truly feel accepted here … it feels like a second home. I’m perfectly comfortable here.”
“Music’s been a part of my life almost all my life. I’ve been playing clarinet since fourth grade, it wasn’t something I wanted to let go when I came to college. Dr. Pease is an awesome director and we have a lot of fun. Being able to play in college is really awesome.”
Professor of Biology
“College students are not always independent learners at first, but by their senior year, our students often know things I don’t know. It’s a result of their digging deep in an area, working in collaboration with their faculty. That’s when we really become colleagues. To watch that development – to be part of it – is fantastic.”
“One of the best aspects of my job is the opportunity to know students as individuals and as scholars. We work together in class, in the lab, and in my office and I start to identify things in them. As they progress in their studies and encounter new fields, they might discover one pathway is not as engaging for them as they had thought. I can show them other pathways, but to do that, I have to take the time to get to know them.”
“I’m not here to deliver a lecture; it’s an interaction. I ask a question, they give answers, and that tells me something about the next question. I expect my students to make mistakes. When one does poorly on a test, we talk and develop strategies for changing how he or she approaches the work. Using successes or failures in the moment to inform your successes in the future – that’s what it’s all about.”
Physics and art history majors
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Critical Materials Institute, Ames Laboratory
Having done some engineering type projects in high school, Helena was naturally drawn to the sciences and to physics in particular. A natural talent in electronics led to a project in analog simulation of a non-linear oscillator for her senior thesis work in physics at Hartwick College.
This led Helena to get a Masters from the University of Virginia in Electrical Engineering, followed by her work at Iowa State University in Wind Energy Science, Engineering, and Policy (co-major Electrical Engineering) where she earned her Ph.D.
She will be completing her postdoc at the Ames Laboratory in August and beginning a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship at the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Office, Advanced Manufacturing Office.
Helena’s liberal arts training will serve her well in this new role that focuses on connecting and communicating science, translating the magic that is science.
