MultiDisciplinary
Anterior Cruciate Ligaments
By Alexis Jenkins
Alexis Jenkins definitely is very active from the start. Sports have always been her passion; growing up, you could always catch her outside at the softball field playing with her high school, tournament team, or family. This all was until she had an almost career-ending injury occur not just once but twice. Luckily, she could continue to play two years of college softball, but she always wondered why tearing your ACL, also known as your Anterior Cruciate Ligament, was such a big deal. Now years later, she is a Senior here at Millersville studying Sports Journalism. After graduation, she plans to work her way into the ESPN world to eventually become an ESPN Broadcast Journalist.
Meet Rachel
Rachel hentnick
Rachel Hentnick is a senior psychology major with a sociology minor. She began this project because she was interested in researching how accepting students were of driving under the influence of various substances. Working closely with Dr. Elizabeth Thyrum to complete this project fulfilled Rachel’s thesis requirement for the University Honors College and allowed her to receive departmental honors in psychology. This project entailed organization, contact with professors, extensive research and data analysis in order to attain significant results that could be used to help improve Millersville students’ understanding of driving under the influence of alcohol and/or marijuana. Rachel’s goal for the future is to become a board certified behavior analyst and work closely with the autism community to help improve the independence in the lives of those who have autism. She has recently been accepted into the Master’s program in Applied Behavior Analysis at Penn State Harrisburg and hopes to enroll in this program while working at The Vista School, a school for children with autism.