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Faculty spotlight: Angelique Walt

By Tseten Dolkar, Staff writer.

Thursday, February 21, 2008 — Monitor.

Angelique Walt.

— Photo by Tseten Dolkar.

“I love Ohlone,” said microbiology Professor Angelique Walt with an air of undeniable enthusiasm.

Walt was born in Montana and raised in Washington. Last September, Walt married her fiancé, a Danville native, and moved to the Bay Area.

Walt is very impressed with the quality of education that Ohlone College offers students at such a low cost. She said the programs and facilities that students here have are more advanced than those in some universities in other states.

Walt is a molecular biologist specializing in protein and DNA. She completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at Washington State University. She first taught as a teaching assistant in graduate school. She loves the students at Ohlone and appreciates the fact that professors here can have one-on-one time with their students.

Having to commute from Pleasanton to Fremont and Newark, Walt is still getting used to California’s notorious traffic. Nonetheless, she likes what the Bay has to offer.

She believes every student can succeed in science and is eager to get younger children interested in science. She would like to bring up the “excitement level” of science, “not [the] fear.”

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