Featured Undergraduate Students
At IUPUI School of Science, we are dedicated to making an impact, and improving lives. This section highlights just a few of our faculty, students, and alumni who exemplify what it means to be a lifelong School of Science scholar. We never stop learning, and never stop searching for answers.
For much of the summer of 2012, junior biology student Neelam Shah lived with a secret—something she wanted to keep to herself in case things didn’t work out as she had hoped.She had applied to the Indiana University (IU) School of Dentistry and viewed...
Student enjoys the many scientific wonders in the environment.Jason Walsman describes himself as an explorer, a guy who would rather be out digging in dirt instead of sitting behind a desk in a pressed suit and tie.Not that he doesn’t have ambition:...
It took only one basic forensic science class in high school before Kelsie Faulds knew what she wanted to do for her career. Choosing where to go college was just as easy, as IUPUI offers the only accredited Forensic and Investigative Sciences (FIS)...
With two parents working in the medical industry, Tyler Beatty learned early that he wanted to study in a field in which he could help people and understand what makes the body and brain function. Still, he remained undecided in what he considered...
From that first stint as an algebra tutor as a high school sophomore, Caris Daily knew she wanted to spend her career mentoring people in the classroom.“When I decided to become a teacher, I considered my love of math as the way I can best help people,”...
Torri Roark still remembers feeling scared and overwhelmed the first time she walked in to volunteer in a research lab in the Department of Physics.She had just changed her major from chemistry to physics. She knew she loved science but didn’t know...
Psychology student Kevin Pritchard has spent the last two years in a research lab in the School of Science learning valuable skills he puts to good use everyday— in his coursework but also his latest hobby.Pritchard has been swept up in the burgeoning...
Lori Bebinger gets frustrated when people summarize her true career passion by asking “You study rocks?” “Geology is about much more than that,” said Bebinger, a senior geology major in the Department of Earth Sciences at IUPUI. “I have learned to...
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