Quick, think of five things others should know about you.
That’s the theme behind a series in UNMC Today called “Lookin’ at U.”
Each Thursday, we will randomly select a medical center employee or student to feature.
This week, we feature Carol Kolar, a research technologist in the Eppley Institute.
Here, in her own words, are five fun facts about Carol:
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- I was once stalked by an actual cheetah in a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Cincinnati. Turned out, it was there for publicity for a book about the Cincinnati Zoo and was on a chain, which was held by a zoo keeper on the other side of the book stack. The keeper had no idea what was happening on my side of the books!
- I have had an incarnation as an amateur archeologist. I found Galena (lead ore) in a burial mound near Campsville, Ill., which linked by trace elements to Michigan, helping prove a trade route existed in prehistoric times via the river systems.
- I grew up in a town of 50 people in the mountains of West Virginia — a beautiful place near white water rivers (New and Gauley Rivers). A number of my cousins are white water guides there.
- I once appeared as a folk singer on a stage show at the Americana Hotel in New York with Woody Allen. Yes, THAT Woody Allen. It was when I won the Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow for the state of West Virginia, which paid for my college education.
- Our daughter in Oregon is a building contractor who had a renovation on Home and Garden TV’s ‘House Hunters.’
Read UNMC Today next Thursday to see who is featured in the next Lookin’ at U article. Who knows — it could be U.