I found Dr. Georgia M. Dunsten’s lecture to be exciting, informative, and enlightening. I learned that she is the director of the human genome center. She also works at Howard University as a physics and an astronomy professor. I found out that we are connected to our past through our blood, that the human experience is recorded into our Genome. all of humanities past triumphs and struggles are encoded in our DNA. we are inextricably bound to the past, yet we are not ruled by it.
Before her presentation I never knew the difference between her profession and geneticists. geneticists just look at certain parts of our genes when researching instead of at the whole genome, they think that they can take it apart to fix the problems that plague us. what really interested me was all the medical benefits that can come from researching our genome sequence. how we can find out which medicines will work better for a particular persons. the effects of these possible discoveries would result in more personalized health-care and less allergic reactions to medicines, and more preventative care.
Another thing that stuck out from her presentation was the effect of thoughts and words on not only yourself and on the world around you. since we are all energy beings, the energy that we put into our words has a profound effect on the world around us.
Her lecture was not just insightful, it was also empowering. she kept reminding us of how unique each person in this room is unique, and how no one in the world can offer what we can. I left Freshman seminar feeling empowered and hopeful.
"Knowledge now revealed on the nature of life, biology, and human identity, that has been suquestered deep within the substructure of the human genome the universal unit of our individual and collective inheritance." I took that quote from Dr. Georgia M. Dunston during her speech about Abandonment, Dismembermant, and Reawakening! The History and Legacy of Howard. Dr. Dunston compared the human genome and the universal code of life aka DNA and how genomes and DNA are full of knowledge just as we are. She talked about how we should be more aware of ourselves and even though she never moved off the first slide she talked with so much ease and did not need any assitance to keep her speech going. I'm not a fan of Biology but I would say she intereseted me more into Howard and all the unknown facts I failed to realize about Howard and made me want to get involved in gaining more wisdom. She opened my eyes to how much history Howard has to offer and all the greatness that I should be honored to be at Howard for my education. Out of her speech I got the message that I should take my energy and put it toward gaining more knowledge in whatever I do. I like how she compared us to the DNA in our body and holding memory because I never looked at life in that way.
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