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Submission Number: 392
Submission ID: 1332
Submission UUID: 2480053a-9b1b-4c43-83a0-5bde846dc7b7
Created: Sat, 03/30/2024 - 09:47
Completed: Sat, 03/30/2024 - 09:47
Changed: Tue, 05/06/2025 - 00:33
Remote IP address: 2600:6c67:697f:c1a3:6936:4ef0:2650:96ee
Submitted by:Anonymous
Language: English
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Mairin
Coghlan
She/Her
Newtown
PA
United States
18940
Environmental Engineering
English
Playing soccer for fifteen out of the eighteen years of my life has given me the opportunity to experience the benefits of being part of a team, leadership, time management, and hard work. I’ve had the privilege of traveling the country attending games and tournaments all year long, immerging myself in the beauty of various states across our nation. On each soccer trip, whether I'm with my mom or dad, we make sure to explore the local city whenever we have a break. Through soccer, I have been able to travel to places I never would have dreamed of going.
Furthermore, my outdoorsy family has road-tripped from Pennsylvania to Washington and back, where many of our routes have taken us through Native American reservations as we journeyed to National Parks. Driving through reservations like the Blackfeet was unlike any place I had been to before, opening my eyes to the diversity of cultures even within one state. Experiences like these have fueled my desire to expand my worldview even further, which I believe Boulder's Global Engineering RAP would help me successfully achieve while teaching me to become a well-rounded citizen of the world.
Furthermore, my outdoorsy family has road-tripped from Pennsylvania to Washington and back, where many of our routes have taken us through Native American reservations as we journeyed to National Parks. Driving through reservations like the Blackfeet was unlike any place I had been to before, opening my eyes to the diversity of cultures even within one state. Experiences like these have fueled my desire to expand my worldview even further, which I believe Boulder's Global Engineering RAP would help me successfully achieve while teaching me to become a well-rounded citizen of the world.
Each spring, I look forward to the day that my mom and I journey to our local garden centers to begin planting our home’s outdoor floral arrangements. Every year we decide on new schemes for each area of our patios, alternating between variations of warm and cool colors. We search for different textures, heights, and shapes, finding old favorites and new varieties alike.
Once our collection is complete, we load up my dad’s pickup truck with our finds and bags upon bags of Gardener’s Gold potting soil. When we arrive home and the hottest part of the day is upon us, we lug all of the planters out of the garage and unload the truck. Digging through our bin of mismatched gardening gloves, we find the ones with the least holes and get to work.
As we construct our masterpieces, we admire my great-grandmother’s one hundred year-old peonies near our front porch and reminisce about my nana’s garden. As our hands become grubby and our foreheads sweaty on a mid-May afternoon, my love for gardening deepens and my matrilineal connections grow stronger. In this multi-generational pastime, I find great joy in sharing the role that my mom, nana, and great-grandmother all possessed at eighteen.
When I imagine living in William's Village among Global Engineering scholars, I hope to be surrounded by peers that share the same love and devotion to the natural world as I do. This way, with a shared mindset towards bettering our global community, me and my classmates can successfully work together in achieving our combined goals.
Once our collection is complete, we load up my dad’s pickup truck with our finds and bags upon bags of Gardener’s Gold potting soil. When we arrive home and the hottest part of the day is upon us, we lug all of the planters out of the garage and unload the truck. Digging through our bin of mismatched gardening gloves, we find the ones with the least holes and get to work.
As we construct our masterpieces, we admire my great-grandmother’s one hundred year-old peonies near our front porch and reminisce about my nana’s garden. As our hands become grubby and our foreheads sweaty on a mid-May afternoon, my love for gardening deepens and my matrilineal connections grow stronger. In this multi-generational pastime, I find great joy in sharing the role that my mom, nana, and great-grandmother all possessed at eighteen.
When I imagine living in William's Village among Global Engineering scholars, I hope to be surrounded by peers that share the same love and devotion to the natural world as I do. This way, with a shared mindset towards bettering our global community, me and my classmates can successfully work together in achieving our combined goals.
Growing up, my favorite genre of books was Choose Your Own Adventure. The freedom to determine my story fascinated me. Throughout high school, my humanities, architecture and STEM classes led to my interest in sustainable design and alternate energy sources. Entering senior year, I enrolled in an Experimental Research in STEM course, enabling deeper independent exploration into these areas.
Like the Choose Your Own Adventure Books, I determined my path for my research project. As I searched science journals for subjects on environmental engineering and alternative energy, I stumbled across fuel cells and a species of filamentous bacteria known as cable bacteria (Candidatus electronema) that channel electricity. Reading about these amazing abilities, I saw potential in these microbes as a readily available energy source.
I decided my topic would be the productivity of cable bacteria in a microbial fuel cell. To obtain my study subjects, I connected with the expert in this field, Professor Lars Peter Nielsen, Head of the Electromicrobiology Department at Aarhus Universitet in Denmark. Agreeing to send me samples of the bacteria, Professor Nielsen expressed his interest in my results, as cable bacteria’s potential as an energy source has not been studied.
In college, I hope to continue my research into innovative paths for more sustainable energy technologies and collaborate with more experts in the field across the world. If I were a member of CU Boulder's Global Engineering RAP, I would fulfill my goals of helping our global community alongside a team of likeminded individuals, providing my strong work ethic and leadership skills. I can work together with my fellow engineering students to continue my research in a global context of a more sustainable and equitable future.
Like the Choose Your Own Adventure Books, I determined my path for my research project. As I searched science journals for subjects on environmental engineering and alternative energy, I stumbled across fuel cells and a species of filamentous bacteria known as cable bacteria (Candidatus electronema) that channel electricity. Reading about these amazing abilities, I saw potential in these microbes as a readily available energy source.
I decided my topic would be the productivity of cable bacteria in a microbial fuel cell. To obtain my study subjects, I connected with the expert in this field, Professor Lars Peter Nielsen, Head of the Electromicrobiology Department at Aarhus Universitet in Denmark. Agreeing to send me samples of the bacteria, Professor Nielsen expressed his interest in my results, as cable bacteria’s potential as an energy source has not been studied.
In college, I hope to continue my research into innovative paths for more sustainable energy technologies and collaborate with more experts in the field across the world. If I were a member of CU Boulder's Global Engineering RAP, I would fulfill my goals of helping our global community alongside a team of likeminded individuals, providing my strong work ethic and leadership skills. I can work together with my fellow engineering students to continue my research in a global context of a more sustainable and equitable future.
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