Goalie, photographer, scientist
Whether she’s blocking shots as goalie for the men’s ice hockey team or examining cancer cells as a research assistant in the Whitehead Institute, MIT senior Kate Koch loves a challenge.A new Marshall Scholar, Koch will study radiation biology in a master’s program at Oxford University next year, after which she plans to pursue an MD/PhD. One day, she hopes to practice as a pediatric oncologist and run her own research lab. “I never wanted to be anything besides a doctor, since the first time someone asked me, ‘What do you want to be?’” Koch says.Koch was born just 10 minutes from MIT at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, but her parents — both physicians — moved the family to Ohio when she was a few months old. She grew up with two younger brothers in Cleveland, attending an all-girls’ school called Hathaway Brown.“The school I went to did a really...