{"id":109087,"date":"2020-05-04T11:20:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T15:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=109087"},"modified":"2022-03-24T16:36:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T20:36:57","slug":"living-out-a-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/living-out-a-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"From Myth to Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Walters-Marrah \u201920<\/strong> has a little down time. He could binge One Piece<\/em> \u2014 he\u2019s on a second go-round of all 929 episodes of the Japanese animated series. But no, today he\u2019s in his apartment teaching himself math. Calculus and linear algebra, to be exact. He doesn\u2019t have<\/em> to do this.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I put my mind to something, I\u2019ll do whatever it takes to master it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

And that explains how he came to Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ as a first-generation university student, how he discovered something once-mysterious to him called research and has become so enamored with it that he\u2019s worked alongside Ivy Leaguers and world-respected scientists en route to a degree in molecular microbiology<\/a>. This fall, he\u2019ll start work on his doctorate at Stanford.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I put my mind to something, I\u2019ll do whatever it takes to master it.\u201d \u2014 George Walters-Marrah \u201920<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the same young man who didn\u2019t even know what a GPA was until his senior year of high school.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother and grandmother stressed the importance of college,\u201d says Walters-Marrah, who grew up with an older sister, Rachel, and younger brother, Aaron, in Miami. \u201cMy mom just wasn\u2019t sure where she\u2019d get the resources to send us all to college.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walters-Marrah had a scholarship offer to play soccer in the Northeast, but he didn\u2019t sense a good fit. Then a PE teacher pointed out his GPA, explained what it meant, and said, \u201cYou have opportunities, George.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was all he needed to hear. Completing a four-year degree with limited debt became his new obsession.<\/p>\n

One Day in a Dark Room<\/h2>\n

Walters-Marrah can\u2019t tell you why he kept bothering his mother, Althea, for a microscope and telescope as a child. Despite limited finances, she gave in.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo what interests you,\u201d she would say.<\/p>\n

Although young Walters-Marrah couldn\u2019t see living cells or distant planets with the toy scopes, they did open his imagination. He also heard of these people called scientists.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know where they worked or if they were even real. To me, scientists were myths.\u201d He might never have known the truth had he not visited Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ with a high-school friend. Walters-Marrah liked what he saw and heard.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he gets to that point there\u2019s no denying him,\u201d says his mother. Some of Walters-Marrah\u2019s drive comes from his mother, who grew up on a farm in Jamaica, became a track star, and was the first member of her family to move to the United States. She put her own college aspirations aside while raising three kids, but would not let them put theirs aside (Rachel earned an associate degree from Miami Dade College and Aaron is currently enrolled there).<\/p>\n

\u201cMom said I could go to Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½, but I\u2019d have to find ways to fund it,\u201d Walters-Marrah says.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all she had to say. First, Walters-Marrah earned a Silver Pegasus Scholarship as an incoming freshman. He had to grind through his first few weeks at Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½, listening intently to lectures and making note cards after class, whatever it took to keep his grades up. Then he walked into a lab for the first time. There, in the dark, he saw an object glowing and crawling under a microscope. Bacteria. He looked around and thought:<\/p>\n

This is research. These are scientists. They aren\u2019t myths. They\u2019re real<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI decided right then, \u2018This is what I want to do,\u2019 \u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom my first interactions with George, it was clear that he had ambitious goals.\u201d – Kyle Rohde, Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ associate professor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He didn\u2019t have to wait long to discover research opportunities, thanks to mentors such as Kimberly Schneider, director of Undergraduate Research<\/a>. \u201cGeorge applied for programs, scholarships and internships that eventually built out an incredible resume,\u201d says Schneider. \u201cHe became a role model.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Learning Environment and Academic Research Network provided him exposure to research projects. He participated in the McNair Scholars Program<\/a>, summer work studies, and mentored other students from underserved communities. He heard about Associate Professor Kyle Rohde\u2019s research on bacteria and diseases, so he emailed and called to ask if he could be a part of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom my first interactions with George, it was clear that he had ambitious goals,\u201d says Rohde. \u201cRather than passively hoping his dreams would come true, he used initiative and grit to take full advantage of opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Persistence Pays Off<\/h2>\n

There was this time when a scientist from MIT came to speak at Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½. She asked how many students in the room knew the cell cycle. How about what transcribes DNA? Walters-Marrah raised his hand to both questions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho knows how to code?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n

Walters-Marrah didn\u2019t know coding. So he went back to his apartment and started teaching it to himself. Shortly after mastering it, he earned a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. He used some of the money to do research at Cornell University, not for credit but simply to join a bacteria research project. During the research, he used his new coding knowledge to help his team analyze data more efficiently. The researchers at Cornell were impressed.<\/p>\n

During his four years at Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½, he\u2019s also conducted research at the University of Pennsylvania and, through the National Science Foundation, at the University of Chicago. The 40-hour weeks in the lab didn\u2019t seem like work, so he went in on weekends, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t get enough of it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to help underserved students learn about the accessibility of higher education.\u201d – George Walters-Marrah \u201920<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His mom always told him: Do what you love. And so his research isn\u2019t going to end any time soon. In September, he\u2019ll turn a new page at Stanford University, diving deep into the tricky relationship between bacteria and immune systems \u2014 with barely any debt. After that he might become a research professor or do industry-based research.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing is for sure,\u201d he says, \u201cI want to help underserved students learn about the accessibility of higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Aldarondo-Jeffries, director of the McNair Scholars Program, has watched Walters-Marrah almost from Day 1. \u201cSince his arrival at Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½,\u201d says Aldarondo-Jeffries, \u201cGeorge has made it his mission to make a difference for others. I cannot think of another student who better embodies Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ and its creed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incoming freshman who thought science resided next to fiction is leaving as a scientist. His message: If you want it badly enough, you can master anything. Even those concepts you might think are myths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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