Miranda Kling took her first biology class in freshman year while at Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake, Washington. She immediately became interested in biology. “There are so many things we can’t see,” Kling said. “[Microbiology] really drives all of our processes and makes the world go around.” Kling, born in Moses Lake, will.
Science and journalism seem like they should be on completely different ends of the spectrum, but they tend to blend well together.
Science communication professor Phil Mixter said science is becoming an important part of people’s everyday lives, so having someone who understands science and writes about it is helpful.
It is important to understand how to think scientifically and analyze things rationally, he said.
“Those things are just a part of our reality,” he said. “I’d like to think that everybody needs a good conceptual and informed basis to deal with those things.”
Mixter said he got a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry at Oregon State University and continued to have an interest in biomedical science afterwards.
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