AMANDA GORTON

Post Doctorate

Favorite sandwich: Any sandwich from the Lake Wine and Spirits Cheese Shop

Secret talent: Making sourdough bread

Dream alternative career: Own a combination bookstore + plant store + coffee shop

REBECCA WALKER

PhD Candidate

Favorite Sandwich: an update on the classic pb&j--- sourdough bread, walnut butter, and blackberry jam, cut in triangles

Secret Talent: mini-golf

Dream Alternative Career: I love reading books and being outside, so it's a toss up between used book store owner and professional gardener

RYAN NOE

Senior Scientist

Favorite sandwich: quesadilla

Secret talent: remembering acronyms

Work in progress: wind surfing, map sculptures

TERIN MAYER

Graduate Student Researcher, PhD Student

Secret Talent: Growing up abroad made me bilingual in Spanish and I seem to have a knack for languages generally.

Dream Alternative Career: Forest ranger in the BWCA

Work in Progress: Getting better (slowly) at fishing, both spinning tackle and fly.

JOHN SENG

MS STEP '21

Favorite sandwich: Breakfast sandwich from May Day Cafe

Work in progress: Keeping my houseplants alive

Dream alternative career: Tiny house designer

MADDIE HANSEN-CONNELL

MS STEP '22

Favorite sandwich: Cajun Finn at Northern Waters Smokehaus in Duluth

Dream alternative career: Zookeeper

Work in progress: Recording a CD!

NOAH FRIBLEY

MS-STEP '22

Dream alternative career: punk drummer or tractor driver

Secret talent: making really good popcorn

Work in progress: wildflower identification sans field guide

SEAN CULLEN

MS STEP '22

Favorite sandwich: TBD

Secret talent: TBD

Work in progress: TBD

HANNAH DUNN

MS STEP '22

Favorite sandwich: Summer sausage and mustard

Secret talent: Speed walking

Work in progress: My sister's Bucky Badger cross-stitch, a gift for Christmas 2016

MS STEP '22

Favorite sandwich: Tuna fish and kale with

extra pickles in a gluten free ivory teff wrap

Dream Alternative Career: Spy/detective

or author

Work in Progress: Myself

MS STEP '22

Favorite sandwich: Croissant breakfast

sandwich

Dream Alternative Career: Late night talk

show host

Work in Progress: Becoming a Minnesotan

MS STEP '23

Favorite sandwich: Chicken sandwich

from the Aster Cafe

Dream Alternative Career: Photojournalist

or musician

Secret Talent: Remembering the birthdays

of (almost) everyone I know

MS STEP '23

Favorite sandwich: "Kind of a Big Dill"

Corktown Deli Duluth

Dream Alternative Career: Architect or

Ornithologist

Work in Progress: My plant collection

MS STEP '23

Favorite sandwich: Chicken pesto panini

Dream Alternative Career: Cirque du Soleil

acrobat

Secret Talent: Ordering and cooking the

perfect amount of food for large groups