Christine Wnek is a second-year in the College of Arts and Sciences. As an undergraduate, Christine hopes to pursue a major in Cognitive Science, an interdisciplinary study that incorporates Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, Anthropology, Neuroscience and Philosophy. She also currently holds interest in Pharmacology for graduate school.
Christine enjoys the mechanics of scientific research, an interest that surfaced when she worked for two consecutive summers in her father’s former chemistry lab at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. She received 200 + community service hours for working in the lab, preparing and collecting data relevant to Gary Wnek’s research. Christine also did some of her own research under his supervision, particularly performing experiments involving cell culturing on poly (vinyl alcohol) films and fibers. She then used this data to write a 4,000 word Extended Essay that ultimately aided her in attaining a separate International Baccalaureate high school diploma.
Christine was enrolled in the Designing Matter class last semester (Spring 2004). Her proposal was entitled “Good-bye to Textbooks,” which addressed the issue of how textbooks in this day and age are too limited, flat, and static to successfully exist within a society that fixes technological applications to practically everything. As a solution, Christine proposed that textbooks should be replaced by CD-ROMs.
Christine is a former member of the First Year Honor Association and she enjoys doing community service through Madison House.
