When Amy Schade arrived at the University of North Texas in the fall of 2010, she wasn’t sure whether she wanted to pursue a degree in biology or history. But after participating in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s National Genomics Research Initiative, her path was clear.
“In my freshman biology courses we had the opportunity to isolate, purify and sequence viruses that infect bacteria,” says Schade. “It was my first exposure to research and I fell in love with it. It solidified...



