Biology Alumni and Student Updates
2015 Student Success
UG Grads - Graduate School Acceptances
Caleb Hayes - M.S. in Biology - University of North Florida
Alyssa Huff – M.S. in Physiology – University of Louisville
Ka Wang Li - M.S. in Human Nutrition and Foods - West Virginia University
Micaela Montgomery - Ph.D. Program in Biomedical Sciences - University of Oklahoma Medical Center
Seth Tooley – completed MS in Cell and Molecular Biology at UCSF and accepted into PhD Program in Cell and Molecular Biology at University of Michigan
MS Grads – Graduate School Acceptances
Jane Bartonjo – MS program in Chemistry – Kennesaw State University
Olivia Boyd – Ph.D. program at Oregon State University
Jennie Dumaine - Ph.D. Program (Integrated Life Sciences - Tropical & Emerging Global Diseases)
Torey Gilkison- Ph.D. Program (Integrated Life Sciences)
Amy Fehrenbach - Ph.D. Program – University of Memphis
Maggie Wisniewska (Rutgers/NJIT PhD program)
Veterinary School Acceptances (all Auburn)
Jessica Ball
Brooke Barber
Haley Freeman
Sydney Jackson
Jaclyn Lile
Emily Osbourne
Katie Prior
Blake Schoenbachler
Medical Technology School Acceptances
Ghaidaa Mimani (Owensboro)
Medical School Acceptances
Chaz Arnold (KYCOM)
Margaret Ballard (KYCOM)
Charles Coomer (UK)
Andreu Edge (UoL/UK)
Brandon Farmer (UoL/UK/VCU –MD/PHD)
Collins Garst (KYCOM)
Jon Hendrie (UofL/UK)
Karie Jeter (UofL/KYCOM)
Nancy Jolly (KYCOM)
Jordan Jones (UofL)
Bradley Lankford (KYCOM, Marian)
Hannah Pennington (UK, IU, Illinois – MD/PHD)
Mackenzie Perkins (KYCOM)
Jordan Pharris (LMCOM, KYCOM)
Tyler Scaff (UofL/UK)
Laura Sims (UofL/UK)
Autumn Smith (UofL)
Kaitlyn Snyder (UofL/UK)
Alex Stewart (UofL/IU)
Kyle Stewart (UofL)
Kodie Stone (KYCOM)
Breanne Vergonet (UK)
Austin Webb (UofL/UK)
Dental School Acceptances
Christian Bennett (UofL)
Christina Cardwell (UofL)
Breion Douglas (Meharry)
Caylee Duncan (UofL)
Kara Hancock (UofL/UK)
Rachel Huffman (UofL/UK)
Kyle Mann (UofL/UK)
Holly Reaume (UK)
Ellen Vice (UK)
Kaysha Wheeler (UofL)
Sabra Wilson (UK)
Optometry School Acceptances
Matt Colonna (IU)
Jason Fort (UAB)
Kelsey Newcome (SCO)
Physical Therapy School Acceptances
Lauren Bradstibner (WKU)
Matt Frazier (accepted to Bellarmine, WKU, and UK – will go to UK)
Brittany Renfrow (WKU; Belmont University)
Taylor Walden (WKU)
Fikret Sabic (WKU)
Chelsea Watson (WKU)
Physician Assistant Acceptances
Kelsey Kaetzel – Accepted at University of Indiana and University of Kentucky – attending UK
Chiropractic Acceptances
Levi McQueary – Life
Pharmacy School Acceptances
Corbin LeMieux – UofL/UK
Riya Patel – UT
Mark Gilliam
2014 Student Success
Graduate School Acceptances
Meredith Bartley – recently completed M.S. at the University of New Mexico and will
be starting a PhD program at the University of Rhode Island
Bethany Coffey – PhD Programs - University of Hawaii at Manoa / Virginia Institute
of Marine Science
Charles Coomer – MS Program in Infection & Immunity at University College London (on
Fulbright Grant) & PhD Program in Virology at University of Oxford (NIH-Oxford/Cambridge
Scholars Program)
Shilo Felton – PhD Program, North Carolina State University
Christopher Fields – MS Program in Biology, Western Kentucky University (Graduate
Fellowship Recipient)
Nick Levis – PhD Program – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (5-year PhD fellowship
in the Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology)
Mary Newton – M.S. program, UNC Wilmington
Sara Wigginton – M.S. (University of Rhode Island)
Veterinary School Acceptances
Kristen Armstrong – Auburn University Vet School
Aaron Duggin – Auburn University Vet School
Regan Hertelendy – Auburn University Vet School
Kayla Pittman – Lincoln Memorial University Vet School
Eli Ernst – Ohio State University Vet School
Brittany Hagar – Lincoln Memorial University Vet School
Medical Technology School Acceptances
Courtney Broyles – Medical Technology Program, Owensboro
Jacob Hood – Medical Technology Program, Owensboro
Daniel Robinson – Medical Technology Program, Owensboro
Medical School Acceptances
Parker Ballentine – UofL, UT
Sara Buskill – KY-COM
Charles Coomer – UofL, UK
Addie Dodson – UofL
Mary Kate Greenwood – UK
Morgan Gruner – UofL, UK, Wayne State, Oakland, MSU, CMU
Daniel Jackson – UofL
Taylor Johnson – UofL
David Mauser – UofL
Kaleb Moore – KY-COM, UofL
Justin Pile – VOCM-SC, LMCOM
Cody Rich – LMCOM
Sarah Schrader – Cornell, Washington University
Suzanne Scott – UofL
Seth Sloan – UofL, UT
Adam Smith – KYCOM
Beau Swisher – KYCOM
Grant Turley – KYCOM
Dental School Acceptances
Shelby Bell – UofL
Bethany Burton – UK
Jacob Clark – UofL, UK
Hannah DeSpain – UofL
Sarah Goff – UK
Austin Huff - UofL, UK
Morgan Murrell – UofL, UK
JD Shadburne –UK
Shawn Stringer – UK
Taryn Thompson – UofL
Spencer Wright – UofL, UK
Optometry School Acceptances
Eric Fox – Indiana University
Physical Therapy School Acceptances
Adam Hyman – Physical Therapy Program - WKU
Awards and Honors – 2013/2014
Richard Dawson - accepted for a summer internship at the aquarium in Atlanta
Megan Laffoon, Goldwater Scholarship Recipient
Chad Coomer – Recipient of U.S. Student Fulbright grant to the UK to complete his master's degree in infection and immunity at University College London. Also accepted into the National Institutes of Health Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program, which will allow him to pursue a doctorate in virology at the University of Oxford while conducting HIV research at Oxford and the NIH.
Gretchen Walch – Honorable Mention Goldwater Scholarship
Sarah Schrader – Recipient of Pearson Prize for Higher Education; U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Paul Fleischmann - Recipient of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Greater Research Opportunity Fellowship.
Jonathan Hendrie - J. William Fulbright Program Recipient and recipient of a DAAD study grant for this summer.
Jordan Olberding – NSF Graduate Fellowship, Honorable Mention
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