Discipline, Determination and a Dean's Award

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Posted on May 9, 2020

托马斯Becnel

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玛丽·凯瑟琳·卡萨拉斯，她回到莫比尔攻读硕士学位 speech pathology 他是十大彩票网投平台的一位有着无限激情的当地人 for her hometown.

“我真的很想回来，”毕业于麦吉尔-图伦的卡萨拉斯说 高中毕业，然后在州外获得本科学位. “I think Mobile’s the best city in 世界. 就像一个又大又小的城市，如果你能理解的话. 我所有的 family’s here, and my friends are here. And there’s Mardi Gras, the best holiday in 世界.”

当卡萨拉斯在十大彩票网投平台入学时，她带来了两个语言病理学的同学 谁也将在今年春天获得研究生学位. Add academic recruiter to her resume.

The 南 women shared a house near campus. They went through clinical rotations and 实习. 现在他们已经忍受了一个多月的冠状病毒大流行.

“我们都喝很多咖啡，所以我们会在早上和下午一起喝咖啡 coffee,” Cazalas said. “We studied together. We’d do movie nights.”

在她的本科和研究生生涯中，卡萨拉斯保持了完美的4分.分数是0 平均. 她没有B. Six years of discipline and dedication.

“我知道我想读研究生，所以我想这就是我的动力，”她说. “And I like to see those A’s.”

In speech pathology 在南’s 帕特·卡普斯·柯维联合卫生专业学院卡萨拉斯在吞咽障碍倡议组织做研究生助理时做过研究 实验室. 她的硕士论文题目是“影响口服丸剂保持类型的因素” 或七星.”

她的学术成就使她获得了学院院长奖.

Cazalas worked in the speech lab with Dr. Kendrea Garand, who encouraged her to write a thesis, in addition to her clinical hours.

“She’s very persuasive,” Cazalas said. “She pushed me to do all of these kinds of 的事情.”

“It wasn’t hard,” Garand said. “我只是在引导她，让她知道我的想法 she could be successful. She’s a pretty smart cookie. I’ve been trying to encourage her to get her Ph.D.”

为了完成她的硕士论文，卡萨拉斯研究了195个健康人吞咽的x光视频 液体. 问题是他们是否会在口腔中收集液体 在吞咽之前，用舌头或舌头以下的部分.

Most turned out to be tippers.

“It was not what we expected,” Cazalas said. “We expected older people would have different patterns of tongue movement. That’s what an earlier study had found.”

在莫比尔的暑假里，卡萨拉斯参加了一个名为“希望营”的暑期项目 for children who have had cancer. In her final internship this spring, she worked at Bluebird Pediatric Therapy Services.

“我喜欢孩子——你永远不知道你会得到什么，”她说. “Every one of them 是不同的. 你可以融入游戏，让工作变得更有趣.”

她的言语病理学事业的下一步将是和一位导师一起工作 a clinical fellowship year. 在那之后，她不确定自己的未来会怎样.

由于冠状病毒的限制，卡萨拉斯将错过传统的毕业典礼 在南. 她已经不得不将婚礼从5月推迟到8月.

“这就是我得到的，”她开玩笑说，“把每件事都计划得如此完美.”

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