{"id":3214,"date":"2018-09-27T21:57:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T21:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2018-10-03T16:49:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T16:49:15","slug":"alumni-angle-kyle-ireton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/2018\/09\/27\/alumni-angle-kyle-ireton\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Angle: Kyle Ireton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Alumni Angle is a recurring series in which we ask an honors alum to update us on their current work and to reflect on their Honors College experience.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Name &#8211; Kyle Ireton, HBS \u201912<br \/>\nMajor &#8211; Biochemistry &amp; Biophysics<br \/>\nThesis &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.library.oregonstate.edu\/concern\/undergraduate_thesis_or_projects\/kw52j955c?locale=en\">Nongenomic Actions of Steroid Hormones in the Ovine Endometrium<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Q:What are you doing now<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>A: I am enrolled in the neuroscience graduate program at University of California, Davis, where I am now a third-year student. I am working in the lab of Dr. Johannes Hell studying the fundamental cellular and molecular mechanisms in the brain that underlie behavior, with a particular focus on how learning occurs and memories are formed. After graduating from Oregon State, I took a couple of years to figure out what to do. I lived for one year in Montevideo, Uruguay, doing research and putting my Spanish classes to use. I then spent another year in Baltimore, MD, working for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which was when I decided to pursue a Ph.D. It felt like a winding and circuitous route, and I was never really sure if I was doing what was \u201cright\u201d or what was \u201cbest,\u201d but at this point I feel like I did choose what was really best for me, and I am pretty happy and excited for the future.<\/p>\n<p><em>Q:<\/em><em>What is your favorite Honors College memory? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A: <\/em>The spring quarter trip to see the Shakespeare festival in Ashland stands out in my mind as a really special experience. I bonded with a lot of Honors College students (and saw some great theater) over those few days\u2014including with Rob Blenk (\u201915), who is now also a grad student at UC Davis and who I still love getting to run into!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This honors tradition continues. In the fall, students enrolled in the HC 407 Shakespeare via Ashland course with Eric Hill take part in a weekend field trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland in October.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumni Angle is a recurring series in which we ask an honors alum to update us on their current work and to reflect on their Honors College experience. Name &#8211; Kyle Ireton, HBS \u201912 Major &#8211; Biochemistry &amp; Biophysics Thesis &#8211; Nongenomic Actions of Steroid Hormones in the Ovine Endometrium &nbsp; Q:What are you doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1205,645351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","category-alumni-and-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3225,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions\/3225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/honorslink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}