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As study buddies and roomies, three PhD students have become phenomenal friends.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Any other time, it would be the beginning of a bad joke. What do Mrs. Claus, Army Barbie, and a biker chick have in common? If you\u2019re Meredith Bauman, Susan Napier, and Melissa Travers\u2014good friends, PhD students, and decked out in those Halloween costumes\u2014the answer is a lot, actually.<\/p>\n

In fall 2003, when Bauman, Napier, and Travers entered the Whiting School of Engineering, they comprised half of the PhD candidates admitted to Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. The list of similarities goes on from there. All three majored in chemical engineering as undergraduates. They are all smart, articulate, kind, and enthusiastic 23-year-olds who plan to graduate in 2008. (Bauman\u2019s energy level alone could generate enough power for the Homewood campus.) They love to play the board game Cranium, teaming up to beat (usually) their male friends and significant others. Hailing from very different states\u2014 Bauman\u2019s home is Neptune, New Jersey; Travers comes from Fayetteville, North Carolina; and Napier\u2019s hometown is Oceanside, California\u2014 they love exploring Baltimore together.<\/p>\n

Like many friendships, circumstances brought them together. They met during an admitted applicant weekend sponsored by Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in April 2003, and hung out together. Bauman and Travers were assigned as roommates for the weekend. \u201cWe were both really excited about Hopkins and had a lot of fun that weekend,\u201d recalls Travers. \u201cWe decided that if we came here, we should try to live together. Then we found out that Susan was enrolling, so we asked her if she\u2019d like to live with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

They chose a bright apartment across from the Peabody Institute in Baltimore\u2019s Mt. Vernon neighborhood, a location they selected for its proximity to the Inner Harbor and the Johns Hopkins shuttle. The overall interior design is Early Graduate Student: well-worn sofas, neglected plants on the patio, and very little on the walls. (Travers took her museum shop prints with her this year when she moved to another apartment.) She admits, \u201cI am still here all the time.\u201d Bauman laughs as she surveys piles of catalogs and books. \u201cWe\u2019re not that neat,\u201d she says. \u201cOur apartment usually looks like boys live here.\u201d Napier interjects: \u201cWell, clean boys, anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early on, they discovered that what seemed natural to them was actually quite unusual in the graduate program. \u201cOut of six incoming students, three of us were women,\u201d explains Napier. \u201cThe fact that we all lived together was even more unique.\u201d If graduate students do live together, says Travers, it\u2019s often out of convenience or because they\u2019re in the same lab group. \u201cWe were drawn to each other and became friends,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese three women … are some of our top students academically but they also have taken the time to make sure the department has a positive social atmosphere as well.\u201d Michael J. Betenbaugh<\/cite><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Says Michael J. Betenbaugh, professor and chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,\u201cThese three women bring an amazing amount of positive energy to our department, both in their interests for the department as a whole and in their dedication and support of each other. They are some of our top students academically but they also have taken the time to make sure the department has a positive social atmosphere as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Case in point: the department\u2019s first-ever Halloween bash in October 2003. The department had sponsored a friendly competition among the graduate students for the best departmental happy hour. The three friends didn\u2019t hesitate when it came to choosing the party they wanted to host. \u201cWe got hay bales at a pumpkin farm and trucked them back in my car,\u201d Bauman recalls. \u201cWe bought dry ice in little cauldrons and made everyone dress up.\u201d Bauman went as Mrs. Claus, Napier as Army Barbie, and Travers as a biker chick. Napier adds, \u201cPeople told us that it was the best party they had ever been to at Johns Hopkins.\u201d They won the competition, with the prize being one of their favorite activities: going out to lunch, this time with the department. They have assumed other leader- ship roles as well. Bauman was honored last fall as one of the first two Schwarz Instructors in Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Laboratory, and Napier is the 2004-05 student representative to the Whiting School\u2019s Graduate Committee.<\/p>\n

While they definitely heed the warning of \u201call work and no play,\u201d their friendship plays a pivotal role in their work. \u201cOur first year, we were all taking the same core classes and all three of us would stick together,\u201d says Bauman, who graduated from the University of Virginia. Travers, a North Carolina State University grad, agrees: \u201cWhen something was really, really hard, we worked together and made sure everyone understood.\u201d Napier also went to college in her home state, studying chemical engineering with an emphasis on bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. \u201cI thought graduate school would be more about setting yourself apart,\u201d says Napier. \u201cBut I\u2019ve learned that using your friends as resources is much better than doing it all by yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

This approach was particularly helpful when all three took Michael E. Paulaitis\u2019s \u201cAdvanced Thermodynamics\u201d course their first semester. \u201cWe had a hard project on programming,\u201d recalls Bauman. \u201cSo we all put in our limited knowledge and combined it,\u201d and did quite well.<\/p>\n

Paulaitis, professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and of Biophysics, praises their intellectual tenacity. \u201cThe three of them typically dominated [class] discussions,\u201d he says. \u201cAlthough they have very different personalities as students, they were competitive and always projected their individual ideas and opinions in class, regardless of what the other two thought. The friendship is special, though. I think it\u2019s a combination of their scholarly abilities and just being nice, enjoyable people to be around.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Three Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering doctoral students\u2014(from left) Meredith Bauman, Melissa Travers, and Susan Napier\u2014quickly bonded after their first meeting, at the department\u2019s admitted applicant weekend.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The three roommates excelled last spring in the oral qualifying examinations, thanks to each other\u2019s help, snack food, and a large dry erase board. To master the material in several textbooks, they set up mock oral exams in their dining room. A critical component of the exam is the student\u2019s ability to explain an answer, something their unorthodox study method addressed. \u201cWhile Melissa was eating her peanut butter, I\u2019d ask her questions,\u201d says Napier. \u201cShe would practice her answer on the board and present the problem to me and Meredith.\u201d Napier notes that each of them had meltdowns during that period. Bauman\u2019s sense of humor helped. \u201cI\u2019d say to them, \u2018It\u2019s 5 a.m. and we\u2019re still awake, so let\u2019s have cookies,\u201d she laughs.<\/p>\n

They decided not to confer with each other when choosing a lab group for the duration of their doctoral studies. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to sway decisions one way or the other,\u201d says Bauman. \u201cWe ended up not having the same first choice at all.\u201d Napier joined associate professor Konstantinos Konstantopoulos\u2019s lab group and researches cell adhesion molecules involved in cancer metastasis to create more effective drug therapies and cancer detection technologies. Post-Hopkins, she plans to continue in biomolecular engineering. In professor Denis Wirtz\u2019s lab group, Travers investigates cell adhesion molecules on the single-molecule level using live cells. Her future plans include becoming a professor or a researcher in industry or government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that we\u2019re doing different things now is helpful,\u201d explains Bauman. Her lab group with Betenbaugh attempts to engineer cells by altering their DNA and expressed proteins to try to prevent programmed cell death. \u201cIf I don\u2019t know how to start something in lab, and I\u2019m telling Susan, she\u2019ll say \u2018Oh, we do that every day in our lab.\u2019 They have equipment that I can use and because of our friendship, I don\u2019t feel bad asking a favor.\u201d After earning her doctorate, Bauman plans to head south and work as a researcher or head a biotech or pharmaceutical company laboratory.<\/p>\n

Once a week, the three students head to a favorite lunch spot or find a new one. \u201cWe always see each other, even with me living in a different apartment,\u201d says Travers, adding, \u201cIf I wasn\u2019t getting married, I would still be living with Susan and Meredith.\u201d Adds Bauman, \u201cPeople didn\u2019t believe that we would still be such close friends once we got to different labs.\u201d Yet despite their different schedules, labs, and advisers, the bonds of their friendship remain strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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