{"id":70057,"date":"2004-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-senior-aims-for-career-in-cancer-research\/"},"modified":"2004-05-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-10T00:00:00","slug":"uri-senior-aims-for-career-in-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/05\/uri-senior-aims-for-career-in-cancer-research\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 senior aims for career in cancer research"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tCentral Falls resident almost skipped college, graduates May 23<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. — May 10, 2004 — When he first arrived on the campus of the 溏心vlog免费B站 nearly four years ago, Dioscaris Garcia wasn’t entirely certain what subject to major in. But he knew what he didn’t want — microbiology.<\/p>\n


\n\t“That was the last thing I wanted to do. I knew I didn’t want to work with something that I couldn\u2019t see,” said the 21-year-old Central Falls resident.<\/p>\n


\n\tBut he changed his mind. Garcia will graduate from 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 23 as one of the University’s top microbiology students. He plans to attend graduate school in the fall with the goal of a career as a cancer researcher.<\/p>\n


\n\tGarcia started his 溏心vlog免费B站 coursework studying animal science and biotechnology, which led him to take his first microbiology class.<\/p>\n


\n\t“That’s when I started to really enjoy the subject,” he recalls. “There\u2019s much more to it than just looking in a microscope. Then, once I got my first experience, my curiosity took over and I wanted to know what else was involved. And the deeper I dug, the more there was to learn. Now I can see how people spend their whole lives studying it.”<\/p>\n


\n\tTwo internships further confirmed that, despite his initial reservations, microbiology was the right field for him. As a sophomore, Garcia interned at Hybrigene, LLC, a South Kingstown-based plant biotechnology company, where he conducted genetic research to help make grass more drought resistant. Last summer he studied metabolites in marine bacteria with 溏心vlog免费B站 Assistant Professor David Rowley in an effort to discover new sources of antibiotics.<\/p>\n


\n\tGarcia\u2019s interest in becoming a cancer researcher emerged partly because several family members have been faced with the disease, and partly because cancer was used as an example in many of his classes. “I want to pursue something that\u2019s going to make an impact on people\u2019s lives,” he said.<\/p>\n


\n\tGarcia almost never had the chance at such a career, because he came very close to missing out on going to college in the first place.<\/p>\n


\n\t“I knew I had a shot at getting into college because I did well in high school, but my parents weren\u2019t wealthy and so, in the back of my mind, I thought that I shouldn\u2019t burden them with having to pay for college when we were barely getting along,” Garcia explained. “So I didn\u2019t even want to apply to college, but my high school counselor, Carol Silver, forced me to write my college applications and essays in her office anyway. She said, \u2018Don\u2019t worry about the money. We\u2019ll figure out a way.\u2019”<\/p>\n


\n\tShortly thereafter, Garcia learned that he was one of the first recipients of a full-tuition scholarship to 溏心vlog免费B站 through the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Multicultural Scholars Program.<\/p>\n


\n\t“I was completely overwhelmed,” he said. “That scholarship was a life saver. It gave me the drive to be a good student because to keep the scholarship I needed to maintain a 3.0 GPA. And once I knew I could do 3.0, I tried to push it as high as I could. That scholarship was the driving force in my academic life.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Central Falls resident almost skipped college, graduates May 23 KINGSTON, R.I. — May 10, 2004 — When he first arrived on the campus of the 溏心vlog免费B站 nearly four years ago, Dioscaris Garcia wasn’t entirely certain what subject to major in. But he knew what he didn’t want — microbiology. “That was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}