[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 159 (Wednesday, October 1, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Pages S10308-S10309]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      RECOGNIZING MS. KELSEY LANDT

 Mr. BUNNING. Mr. President, today I recognize Ms. Kelsey Landt 
of Paducah, KY, who is a premed senior at the University of Kentucky at 
13 years old. Before her teenage years Kelsey participated in spinal 
cord injury research at the University of Kentucky, and while at the 
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, she utilized 
transcranial magnetic stimulation to understand reward processing. At 
the age of 10, she presented her work at the 2005 Community College 
Conference for Student Research in Madisonville, KY, and this year, she

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participated in a summer internship program at the National Institutes 
of Health in Maryland. At an age when many children look to hangout at 
a local mall, Kelsey has already built a resume that mirrors those 
students who were born more than a decade before her.
  In addition to her academic activities, Kelsey is involved in 
community life. She is presently the youngest account holder at the 
Community Foundation of West Kentucky where she raises money for 
medical and research based charitable organizations. She is a regular 
at the local Salvation Army and makes time to volunteer at a local 
children's hospital in Lexington, KY.
  After earning a bachelor's degree in biology at the University of 
Kentucky next spring, Kelsey will begin her postbaccalaureate position 
at the National Institutes of Health and then hopes to attend medical 
school. Like most Kentuckians, I look forward to seeing all that she 
will accomplish as she works toward her goal of becoming a medical 
scientist.

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