Student
The Pennsylvania State University, Nutritional Sciences
Sarah is an ambitious undergraduate biology student at The Pennsylvania State University with a focus on vertebrate physiology and a minor in nutritional sciences. At Penn State, she is a scholar in Schreyer Honors College and a member of Alpha Epsilon Delta Preprofessional Health Honor Society having earned a place on the Dean's List each semester. Her co-curricular activities include leading physics review sessions, privately tutoring physics students, and working in the Micronutrient and Pregnancy Lab at Penn State. Over the past several months, Sarah has been awarded the Erikson Discovery Grant, the Anita M. Collins Undergraduate Student Research Fund in Biology Scholarship, and 2nd place for her work in Health and Life Sciences at the Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition in April. She is currently working on her honors thesis entitled "The impact of prenatal and postpartum vitamin D supplementation on cholecalciferol concentrations in breast milk” through the development of UPLC-PDA detection method, and analysis of milk samples for cholecalciferol from a parent trial in a Bangladesh. This research will be used to further the connection between medicine and nutrition; a topic about which Sarah is passionate. Outside of academics, she is an active member of several on-campus organizations including the Newman Catholic Student Association, Culinary Medicine Club, and the Penn State Blue Band. As the leader of the clarinet section, she travels around the country to perform at Penn State football games and other events such as the Outback Bowl (2022), Rose Parade and Rose Bowl (2023), and Peach Bowl (2023). After graduation, Sarah plans to attend medical school, train as a family physician, and continue to help her family raise honeybees in their apiary!