Article: Whitman College student excels in research field. (estudiante Kristi Contreras se beneficia de trabajar intensivamente en el laboratorio)(TA: student Kristi Contreras benefits from working intensively in the laboratory)

For assistant professor of chemistry James Russo, selecting students to join his summer research group is always a risk because excellence in the classroom doesn't necessarily translate into quality performance in the laboratory.

But Kristi Contreras, a Whitman College sophomore and a 1992 graduate of Edward W. Clark High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, proved to be a risk-free lab student when she joined Russo's group last summer to work on isolating and purifying enzymes from mouse and human tissues.

As a biology major, Contreras plans to pursue a medical career as an obstetrician. She favors that medical specialty because an obstetrician, in dealing with ...

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