From lacrosse field to Harvard lab: Montevallo senior Claire Withington pursues childhood dream through cutting-edge cancer research - Shelby County Reporter

From lacrosse field to Harvard lab: Montevallo senior Claire Withington pursues childhood dream through cutting-edge cancer research - Shelby County Reporter

By DAVE DOMESCIK | Staff Writer MONTEVALLO – Claire Withington still remembers being a kid with a science kit. She’d spend hours conducting makeshift “experiments” in her backyard—part imagination, part chemistry—and wondering what it would be like to work in a real lab one day. Now, years later, that childhood curiosity has come full circle: Withington, a rising senior at the University of Montevallo, is spending her summer at Harvard Medical S…