Jennifer Chase CLASS OF '11

Sophomore

Hometown: Brookings, SD

Majors: Biochemistry and Spanish

Minors: Biology and Latin American Studies

“I’m so glad to be at SDSU,” says Jennifer. “I just can’t believe the type of work I can do in the Honors College. This semester, in organic chemistry, we figured out how to synthesize a drug and conduct a cost analysis. We even had to explain which companies we’d buy our chemicals from. It was amazing.

“I originally wanted to go to college farther from home, but I chose SDSU in the end because I could see that it gave undergrads really unusual opportunities,” continues Jennifer, who spent a semester in Valencia, Spain, during her sophomore year. “It’s virtually unheard of to do the kind of research we do in just our second semester.”