Outstanding in his fields
Henry Gathje ’25 is both a nursing student and a Cardinal catcher Henry Gathje ’25 hopes one day to work as a travel nurse in underserved and impoverished communities; it’s his dream to improve lives. Until then, he’s proving that it’s possible to be both a...
Compassionate care: Former patient studying to become PA
Britney Blacker ’23 can’t remember a time when she didn’t want to go into medicine. She has photos of herself, dressed in scrubs, at the age of 4. And when Blacker wasn’t dreaming of medicine, she was dreaming of softball. She chose to leave her hometown of Castle...
Bitten by research bug
After his first taste of field research, Mark Leonard B’19 was bitten. And now, the biology major has built a career studying and controlling dangerous mosquito populations. Leonard’s end goal, as a research scientist at Iowa State University, is to control...
Advocating for education
In his current position as a policy adviser for Third Way, Chazz Robinson B’16 says he’s always thinking about low income students, racial minorities, anyone who could be left out of the conversation. He can’t forget them, because he once was them. As a young man...
Summer internship offers an opportunity to make a difference
Katrina Danzinger, senior