2024-2025 Scholar Profiles

first-year

 

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victor collado

biology - marine biology
 Mackenzie Cox

Mackenzie Cox

biology - animal behavior
Lucas D 

lucas dunkelberger

mathematics
 Isabella Gray

isabella gray

meteorology
 Kai Jerome  

kai jerome

computer science
 Sam Mair  

sam mair

meteorology
  • Hometown: Birdsboro, PA
  • High School: Perkiomen Valley High School
  • Interests: Plants, weather, art, and outdoors
  • Favorite classes last year: Meteorology, Environmental Science
  • Favority quote: "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
 Anna Meyers  

anna meyers

biology - animal behavior
  • Hometown: Kane, PA
  • High School: Kane Area High School
  • Interests: Reading, soccer, and photography
 Joelle Miles  

joelle miles

biology - marine biology
 Jaiden Newton  

jaiden newton

computer science
  • Hometown: Lancaster, PA
  • High School: Lampeter-Strasburg High School
  • Interests: Reading, working out, and jiu-jitsu
  • Favority quote: "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." - Tim Notke
Anne Sahd

anne sahd

biology - molecular biology
  • Preferred pronouns: she/her 
  • Hometown: Lancaster, PA
  • High School: Hempfield High School
  • Interests: Fine arts and ink drawing, textile work, choir, early music, rock climbing, hiking, gardening, and reading about the Ottoman Empire
  • Extracurriculars: Rock climbing club, Newman club
  • Favorite classes (last semester): Bio 101, Honors World Lit, University Choir
  • Favorite quote: “Are we what we do with time, or are we what time does with us?” — Mahmoud Darwish

second-year

 

 Logan Engle

logan engle 

physics & mathematics
  • Preferred pronouns: he/him 
  • Hometown: Carlisle, PA
  • High School: Big Spring High School
  • Extracurriculars: Honors College, Society of Physics Students, and Math club
  • Favorite Quote: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." - Issac Newton
 Elyssia Good  

elyssia good

biology - plant sciences
  • Preferred pronouns: she/her 
  • Hometown: Lancaster, PA
  • High School: Reach Cyber Charter School
  • Interests: Learning French, photography, and sewing
  • Extracurriculars: Fencing club
  • Favorite quote: "Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars" - J.R.R Tolkien
 Samantha Houtz  

samantha houtz

mathematics - Statistics concentration
  • Preferred pronouns: she/her 
  • Minor: Data Science
  • Hometown: Auburn, PA
  • High School: Schuylkill Haven Area High School
  • Interests/Extracurriculars: Volleyball, learning German, and reading, and amateur tornado chasing
  • Extracurriculars: Honors College, Math club, and intramurals
  • Favorite class last year: Explorations in World Lit, and From Pi to i thru e (UNIV 103)
 Ryan Jetter  

ryan jetter

Chemistry - Engineering Instrumentation Automation
  • Hometown: Bethlehem, PA
  • High School: Liberty High School
  • Interests: Read/write/play video games, and learning coding/programming
  • Favorite quote: "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" - Thomas Edison
 Melanie Jones  

melanie jones

meteorology  
  • Preferred pronouns: she/her 
  • Hometown: Ebensburg, Pennsylvania
  • High School: Central Cambria High School
  • Interests: Hiking, traveling, soccer, and track/field 
 Luke Leopold  

luke leopold

computer science 
  • Hometown: Womelsdorf, PA
  • High School: Conrad Weiser High School
  • Interests: Bowling, reading, and video games
 Avery Neff

avery neff

biology - marine biology
  • Hometown:Lancaster, Pa  
  • High School: Conestoga Valley High School
  • Career Interests: Ocean Exploration/Conservation, Horticulture, Science Writing, Wetlands.
  • Personal Interests: House music, dancing, vampires, film photography, diving, and carbs.  
  • Extracurriculars: Ocean science club 
  • Favorite classes last year: Botany 
  • Favorite quote: “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde

 Zacaria Tawfick

 

zacaria tawfick

computer science
  • Hometown:Alexandria, Egypt
  • High School: Penn Manor High School
  • Interests: Programming, martial arts, fishing, and working out

Zipko

 

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ethan zipko

meteorology
  • Hometown: Lititz, PA 
  • High School: Warwick High School
  • Interests: Photography, astronomy, baseball, golf, music, and reading
  • Extracurriculars: 无忧短视频 Club Baseball and MU AMS

 

third-year

Alex Bermejo

 

Alex Bermejo

Applied Engineering, Safety & Technology: Robotics & Control Systems
  • Hometown: New Oxford, PA
  • High School: New Oxford High School
  • Interests: Cars, paintball, weightlifting, music, and jiu-jitsu.
  • Extracurriculars: 无忧短视频 boys lacrosse, and intramural soccer
  • Favorite class last year: Industrial Robotics (AENG 425)
  • Favorite quote: “whether you think you can or can not — you are right” - Henry Ford
brendan-2024

Brendan Calv

Emergency Management
  • Preferred pronouns: he/him 
  • Minor: Business
  • Hometown: Asbury, New Jersey
  • High School: North Hunterdon High School
  • Interests: baking, making playlists, running, yoga, origami, dancing, singing, theatre, tennis, reading, and outdoors.
  • Extracurriculars: IAEM, Conestoga outdoors club, yoga club
  • Favorite classes last year: Financial Accounting
  • Favorite quote: "Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out yet, then it's not the end." -Unknown
 Nyckoli Green  

Nyckoli Green

Biology - Marine Biology
  • Hometown: Lincoln University, PA
  • High School: Avon Grove Charter School
  • Interests:
    • Career: Carcinology, animal conservation
    • Personal: Videogames, boardgames, movies, and reading
  • Extracurriculars: Boardgame club and work
  • Favorite class last year: CHEM111
  • Favorite quote: "Many fall in the face of chaos, but not this one; not today."
 Jennifer Juarez  

Jennifer Juarez

Biology - Animal Behavior
  • Hometown: Clifton, New Jersey
  • High School: Clifton High School
  • Interests: Dancing, baking, playing video games, and hiking!
  • Extracurriculars: Biology Mentorship Program (BMP), Entomology club, and MU Smash club
  • Favorite classes last year: Zoology and Chemistry!
  • Favorite quote: "If you have a dream, then you shouldn't give up no matter what. You can't be successful if you don't fail."
 Ashton Kunkle  

Ashton Kunkle

Computer Science
  • Hometown: Ephrata, PA
  • High School: Ephrata Senior High School
  • Interests: Programming, physics and space, music production, video production, wood working, and gymnastics/flips
  • Extracurriculars: Conestoga outdoor club
  • Favorite class last year: CSCI 362 Data Structures
  • Favorite quote: "One day you’ll leave this world behind, so live a life you will remember." – Avicii (Tim Bergling)
 Dai Ma  

Dai Ma

Computer Science 
  • Hometown: Vietnam
  • High School: Manheim Township High School
  • Interests: Soccer, build gundam, and games
  • Extracurriculars: Outdoor club and robotic club
  • Favorite class last year: CSCI 161
  • Favorite Quote: "It's not the load that breaks you, it's the way you carry it."
 sarah-2024  

Sarah Murphy

biology - environmental biology
  • Minor: Chemistry
  • Hometown: York, PA
  • High School: Dallastown High School 
  • Interests: Rock climbing, and hiking 
  • Extracurriculars: Conestoga outdoors club, climbing club, and Ocean science club 
  • Favorite class last year: Zoology
 Frank Schaeffer

frank schaeffer

biology -  Plant sciences
  • Hometown: Columbia, PA
  • High School: Donegal High School
  • Interests: Backpacking, rock climbing, mountaineering, beekeeping, cooking, culinary microbiology, and plant hunting.
  • Extracurriculars: Entomology Club, and Lancaster County Beekeeping Society.
  • Favorite Quote: "We find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end." - James Hutton
 Kayla Tracey

Kayla Tracey

Biology - animal behavior
  • Hometown: Red Lion, Pennsylvania
  • High School: Red Lion Area Senior High School
  • Interests: Animals, reading, hiking, biking, and music
  • Extracurriculars: Biology club, Marauder Marching Band, All Campus Musical Organization, Student Government Association, and Honors College Student Association
 Skyler Woodley ______________  

Skyler Woodley

Biology - Marine Biology 
  • Minor: Chemistry
  • Hometown: Milford, PA
  • High School: Delaware Valley High School
  • Interests: Snorkeling, rock climbing, and hiking
  • Extracurriculars: Climbing club, Submersible Research Team, and Conestoga outdoors club
  • Favorite class last year: Ichthyology 
  • Favorite quote: "Res, non Verba"

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