A line from Apple founder Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford University commencement address carries special meaning for Kayla Huemer as she ventures out into Africa, committed to advancing global health development through technology.
“He said, ‘You can’t connect the dots of your life looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward,’” Huemer says. “Looking back, the starting dot for me was working at the Morgridge Institute for Research. The skills I learned there, the mentors I gained and the opportunities I was given — they were the starting dot that got me to where I am today.”
Raised in Mount Horeb, Wis., Kayla earned her biomedical engineering degree at the UW–Madison while conducting research at Morgridge. She worked as a BerbeeWalsh Prototype Pathway student in the Fab Lab on fabrication of a zebrafish live imaging device along with researchers Robert Swader, George Petry, Ben Cox and Morgridge Investigator Kevin Eliceiri.
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