Students in Emory's Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) have been hard at work in classrooms, labs, and libraries all across campus. For this "Why Research Wednesday," we are thrilled to share one of our SURE participant's stories. Linda Cho is an Emory student on the pre-medical track, majoring in biology and minoring in English. This summer, she is conducting research in the field of psychology. Her current project is Post Encoding Arousal Memory Measures. Cho's research is through the Hamann Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, which she joined at the end of the spring semester of her freshman year after cold emailing and interviewing several professors. She has been working in this lab for two and a half years. During her search, Cho focused on finding research labs that aligned well with her interests. She was interested in emotion and memory separately, so this lab caught her eye because it offered research opportunities in both areas. For Cho, being inv...