Jillian Howard

My name is Jillian Howard, this is my first year with Lab51. My passions take root everywhere. I take particular interest in technology, medicine, psychology, management, and hands-on activities. This artifact represents my love for technology paired with my passion for medicine. Biomedical technology is a new found interest of mine thanks to the NINDS Biotechnology Essay competition that I competed in this last year. To do Good, to me, means doing your best to benefit yourself, others, or your environment. By exploring biotechnology I am able to continue to open my mind to passions and interests that I otherwise would not have gotten to experience. This artifact represents that by creating an interest in a different topic for me, broadening my perspective of medicine. The experience of writing this artifact represents a real issue in medicine of mental illnesses.This is something that I connect with, and I believe that it is a heart-breaking issue. This experience should inspire others to do research on what they are passionate about and continue to look at their passions, because they are ever-growing. In the past 10 weeks I have experienced some amazing things and topics with amazing people that I hope to work with again. It has definitely deepened my passions for medicine and technology, and brought up some new passions within these fields.