“When trying to explain how amazing of a teacher and mentor that Kara Rogers is, I have a hard time thinking of where to start because there are so many things about her that make her truly deserving of this recognition. I took BIOE103 with her last year, and this year I have the pleasure of learning from her again as a TA for the course. Because of this, I get to see the enormous amount of work that she puts in behind the scenes to make sure that each and every student gets as much out of the class as possible. Kara takes student feedback to heart, so she took it upon herself to help redesign some of the curriculum based on last year’s comments — including redesigning problem sets, updating lecture material to reflect modern bioengineering, and creating medical case studies that are fascinating and helpful. On top of that work, Kara cares deeply about the students as people too. She never hesitates to meet with students over coffee to chat about life, career goals, and personal goals. There have been plenty of times where she would take the time to see how things were going in my life and make sure that I was happy and healthy. Juggling many highly demanding engineering classes all at once, Kara runs everything so smoothly. She is one of those people that all bioengineering undergrads know and love — she is so well-liked for her compassion, caring nature, and dedication to education. In the bioengineering capstone, Kara mentors teams as they develop novel engineering technologies to address unmet medical needs. If one of her teams runs into a challenge, Kara will do whatever she can to help, whether than means connecting the team with some resource or doing hours of online research by herself. I could go on and on about Kara, but I will end in saying that I cannot think of another educator who I think deserves this recognition for this year more than Kara Rogers.”