Editor's note: In "Year One: Life at ASU," we follow five freshmen through their first year at Arizona State University in an occasional photo series. This is the latest for one of them, Hannah Kieling.
Training to be a nurse means learning all about the human body and its many functions; in Biology 201, students such as Hannah Kiesling covered the cranial nerves and prepared for upcoming exams. The instructor, Matt Speer, also took them for a visit to the cadaver lab, demonstrating the muscle anatomy of the arm.
Kiesling is the only freshman research intern in a study with Felipe Gonzalez Castro, studying how the “Keepin It Real” substance-abuse prevention program has been adapted at a local level with teachers in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Through her work there, Kiesling has learned to interview participants in a research study without influencing answers through body language or responses, as well as how to do independent work with upperclassmen and graduate students in a professional environment.
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Hannah Kiesling waits for her teacher to arrive outside her anatomy class on the Downtown Phoenix campus.
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The day's topic: Cranial nerves. Kiesling and her class prepare to learn about the 12 pairs of nerves that emerge directly from the brain.
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Kiesling listens to the lecture and takes notes on cranial nerves during her Biology 201 class.
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Instructor Matt Speer (left) leads a lab with a cadaver for Kiesling and her classmates, to better illustrate the muscles they are studying.
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Kiesling collects her classmate's worksheets at the end of anatomy class.
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Kiesling chats with her neighbors as their anatomy class wraps up on March 28.
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Kiesling (right) looks over the agenda that senior nursing student Carly Cutshaw just handed her in a meeting with Felipe Gonzalez Castro. Kiesling is a research intern helping to study how the “Keepin It Real” program has been adapted at a local level with teachers in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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Kiesling (center) listens to Castro talk about interview skills for their research during a meeting at the College of Nursing and Health Solutions on the Downtown Phoenix campus.
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Kiesling talks about possible future conferences where their research poster can be displayed.
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