“EMU ENGINEERING STACKS UP!” Competing with students from top engineering programs around the country, EMU engineering majors Dylan Grove (far left) and James Paetkau (far right) were delighted and not a little astonished to find out their poster about a sustainable bike project took top honors in the undergraduate design team division at the American Society for Engineering Education’s Zone 2 Conference.
PRESTIGIOUS SUMMER RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS EMU has outstanding success placing students in prestigious National Science Foundation summer research grants. Last summer seniors Eli Wenger, Hannah Daley (left), and Janaya Sachs, and junior Amanda Williams investigated zooplankton, measured light in forests, and explored photocatalysts at top research institutions around the country and overseas.
SELECTED FROM 1,200 APPLICANTS Sanjay Dick ’11, MA ’17 became the first MA in Biomedicine graduate to be admitted to veterinary school. He is one of 120 students in his class at Virginia Tech.
INSPIRING YOUNG SCIENTISTS A new museum outreach program of the D. Ralph Hostetter Natural History Museum will introduce Shenandoah Valley students to the sciences – and to EMU.
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