< Previous NEW C OMER Q&A: ERIC REED JR. 71 Q: What made you want to come to Auburn? A: It was very structured, and it was a lot of family. Everyone treated you like family. I bonded with the players and the coaches. Q: What is unique about the defensive backs? A: It is really the hardest position on the field. You have to basically guess where the receiver is going, so you are playing the guessing game. My freshman year [of high school] they switched my position [from wide receiver to defensive back] and I almost quit, but I grew to love the position. Q: What are you looking forward to most about your Auburn experience? A: For football, just getting my chance to play. For school, I would say getting that normal college experience. I hope we can get back to normal soon. Q: What is your biggest goal athletically while being a student-athlete at Auburn? A: To get a national championship and become an All-Ameri- can. I really just want to be a big-time player for the team. Q: What do you want to do after your football career is over? A: I am a sports broadcasting major. Honestly, if football doesn’t work, I want to be a coach or be a sports analyst. Even if I cannot play the game, I want to always be around it and talk about it. Q: What is your biggest goal academically while being a student-athlete at Auburn? A: Make honor roll. Q: What’s your all-time favorite movie? A: Fast and Furious. Q: If you could have dinner with any Auburn Legend, who would it be and why? A: Bo Jackson. I would just ask him about his experience here at Auburn. And I would want to know how did he get to where he got to and just go through the whole process with him. Q: What’s your favorite aspect of football? A: I love the competitiveness. I don’t like to lose. Q: If you could pick one superpower, what would it be? A: To read minds. I play a corner position and have to guard a receiver and basically have to guess what he doing. But if I can read minds, I’ll already know what he’s thinking about and what he’s doing. I’ll just be there ready for him. Q: What is one of your biggest life goals outside of football? A: To not have to worry. To be able to provide for my family and not have to worry. Q: How did football come into your life? A: The game just came to me. Nobody put a football in my hands. I just started playing when I was in fifth grade. A couple of my siblings did [played football], but they didn’t really go too far with it. I didn’t really start taking it serious until seventh or eighth grade though. Q: When did you start to take football seriously? What made you think ‘Hey, this is something I can do and go onto a big D1 school’? Was there a defining moment or game? A: When I started making big plays and when I actually started to play varsity in eighth grade. Then I started varsity my freshman year. This past year, my senior year, it was our third game and it was one of the biggest games in the city. We played this team that blew us out basically my junior year and it’s always been like a rivalry game. There was a bunch of hype that whole week leading up to the game and we won. Q: Is there an athlete (collegiate or professional) that you look up to and why? A: I’d say Tre’Davious White. We’re from the same city and play the same position. Where we come from, we don’t get many opportunities, so he basically set the way for me. NEWCOMER Q&A BY JEN DIETRICH A UBURNTI G ERS.C O M ERIC REED JR.Alabama Contract Sales, Inc. Auburn, Alabama P: 334.821.4500 www.alabamacontractsales.com COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL • INSTITUTIONAL SIDES DRYWALL, INC. 1937 WHATLEY ROAD, BLDG. 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Forget conducting research in a quiet lab, Scott conducted the research for her doctoral degree more than 400 kilome- ters, or 250 miles, above the Earth on “I never thought that I would travel to Europe and conduct research on the ISS,” said Scott. “Auburn University has given me an incredible opportunity to make the most out of my graduate school experience.” This lab, completely inside the ISS, contains the Plasma Kristall-4, or PK-4, dusty plasma laboratory. Scott is a graduate student in the Department of Physics in the nd her advisor is Edward Thomas Jr. Her research focuses on plasma physics, a field in which Auburn has been an international leader for more than four decades. The research is supported by NASA, the National Science Foundation, and Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, or EPSCoR. The project researches polarity switching, a stopping tech- nique used in PK-4, to see how the kinetic energy of flowing dusty plasmas is converted into other forms of energy once the particles are stopped. The experiments were conducted in partnership with Baylor University and Wittenberg University in collaboration with the German Center for Air and Space, European Space Agency, and ROSCOSMOS, the Russian Space Agency. Scott traveled to Munich, Germany, to prepare for experi- ments testing the computer scripts and discussing the desired data that would be captured through video. She then traveled to Toulouse, France, to their National Center for Space Studies to conduct the experiments and communicate directly with Russian cosmonauts aboard the ISS. Scott had to quickly decide once the experiments began where to direct the cameras to record the data to gather the most information possible. Scott even flew back to France to pick up the high-resolu- tion data right before COVID-19 halted international travel. “I am incredibly proud that Lori is earning her doctoral degree through conducting research completely aboard the International Space Station. I know her unique experience will inspire more women to become scientists and create new, exciting paths for others to explore,” said COSAM Dean Nicholas J. Giordano. The next time you are in Jordan-Hare Stadium, look up. You never know what Auburn students are achieving and where. A UBURNTI G ERS.C O M Graduate student Lori Scott poses for a photo with her advisor, Edward Thomas Jr., prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lori Scott, center, traveled to Europe to conduct her research that was aboard the International Space Station. The photo was taken before the COVID-19 pandemic. 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