But the death of her older brother had ignited an interest in medicine, and a wish to "honor" him.
"That kind of ignited an interest in him to understand more about how sharks were put together," said Robert E. Hueter, director of the Center for Shark Research at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota.
They have ignited an interest in reading among kids who may never have thought to pick up a book for the simple pleasure of recreational reading.
Best of all, though, it ignited an interest in corners of the city I had barely known existed: islands and neighbourhoods that I set off to explore, once safely back down at ground level.
My senior thesis, about how filmmaker David Lynch deploys the discourse and metaphors of psychoanalysis to dissect identity, desire, and trauma, ignited an interest in psychoanalytic theory that has only grown with time.
As millennium fervor ignited an interest in the past, Mr. Trout returned more and more to the microphone he never really abandoned, in a career that appears to have no retirement clause.
These advantages of Apache Spark ignited an interest in us to use Apache Spark for sequence alignment tool StreamAligner.
These advantages of Apache Spark ignited an interest in us to use Apache Spark for our association rule mining algorithm Adaptive-Miner.
Early in her faculty career, an invitation to teach a course on women and biology ignited an interest that led her to shift her research focus from doing science to studying women in science.
A second student wrote, "It was a great class and ignited an interest in enviro health that was not previously there!" The 2013 NextGenU/Flipped Classroom students rated their overall course experience more highly than those students who took the EOHC in previous years when a lecture-based model was used.
Her own personal interest and commitment to reading eventually led to the Oprah Book Club, igniting an interest and passion for reading by people across the country.
