Brooke Wiles Earns Martha Stackhouse Grafton Award

2017 Jun 16

Mary Baldwin graduate Brooke Wiles earned the Martha Stackhouse Grafton Award at Mary Baldwin University's 175th commencement on May 21.

Biology major and psychology minor Brooke Wiles worked in Paris as an intern at Institute Pasteur's molecular retrovirology unit and served as president of MBU's biological honor society. Wiles is also a Global Honors Scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa. As a senior, Wiles took on two thesis projects. Her biology thesis "The Effects of SLPI Knockdown on Colorectal Cancer Progression," was initially inspired by her interest in HIV research. For her honors project, "CRISPR and its Ethical Implications in Genetic Modification," Wiles analyzed the ethical concerns surrounding the very same technology she used in her biology senior project, combining the two disciplines.With the future goal of working for the World Health Organization, she will continue studying this fall in New York University's Master of Public Health program, which will take her to Washington, D.C., Ghana, and Abu Dhabi.