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Student Profiles
Brendan Naples (Class of 2003)
"I chose Miami because it was the best bang for the buck in Ohio ... Miami will offer you the resources and opportunities to help you make anything happen. You just need to seek out those opportunities; they're there for you."
Brendan graduated from Miami with a double major in zoology and geography. He earned his MS degree from Appalachian State University. Brendan currently is an environmental scientist for a company in North Carolina that designs and manufactures clean air and clean water technologies.
[Read what Brendan has to say about his Miami experience.]
Peter Harnish (Class of 2010)
"As well as finding what you want to do, college allows you to discover what you don't want to do with the rest of your life ... you don't need to come to college knowing what you'll be doing when you leave."
Peter Harnish is a junior with a double major in chemistry and physics. Peter takes advantage of some of the "alternative[s] to normal college fare" that Miami has to offer. He plans to continue physics research in graduate school.
[Read what Peter has to say about his Miami experience.]
Tim Webster (Class of 2008)
"My advice to students? Ask as many questions as you can and find professors that you want to work with. My professors pushed me when I needed to be pushed and they stepped back when I needed to be independent. Either way, their doors were always open."
Tim Webster graduated from Miami with a double major in anthropology and zoology. He will be starting a Ph.D. in anthropology at Yale University in fall 2009. He hopes to study chimpanzee feeding and nutritional ecology in Kibale National Park, Uganda.
[Read what Tim has to say about his Miami experience.]
Rebekah Farrar (Class of 2009)
"My advice to students? Get out of your bubble. By that I mean get out of your comfort zone and find new passions."
Rebekah Farrar is a senior from Columbus, Ohio. She is majoring in mathematics. She recently won a Fulbright scholarship and will teach English to Taiwanese middle school students.
[Read what Rebekah has to say about her Miami experience.]
Maura Reilly (Class of 2009)
"I wanted a school where students cared primarily about academics. I also wanted to be in an open learning environment. I found both of those at Miami."
Maura has studied primate biology and behavior at a field school in Costa Rica and researched ape play at the Toledo Zoo. This semester she is studying primate genetics, ancient DNA, and human evolution at the University of Cambridge, England. She is past president of Miami's Primatology Club. She will be conducting research on squirrel monkeys in Ecuador as part of her Undergraduate Summer Scholars award (2009).
[Read our recent conversation with Maura.]
Josh McIntire (Class of 2010)
"In high school, history was memorizing dates and facts. In college, history is more analytical."
Josh McIntire is a junior from New Concord, Ohio. He is majoring in history and has a minor in political science. Josh won the prestigious Beinecke Scholarship, a $34,000 award that will enable him to pursue graduate studies in history. Josh hopes to earn a PhD and to become a university professor. When Josh arrived at Miami he wanted to be a lawyer. After completing Miami Plan foundation courses in history, he realized that he wanted to study the history of early modern Italy. He fulfilled his language requirement by taking Italian and plans to study in Italy his senior year, either in Rome, Milan or Siena. Josh is a 2009 Undergraduate Summer Scholar and will conduct research at Miami this summer. He will expand his summer scholar's research for his departmental honors thesis in history. Josh is a resident assistant in Anderson Hall and participates in volunteer activities such as raking leaves for elderly residents of Oxford and working at the Hamilton Animal Shelter.
Richard Wagner (Class of 2009)
"Miami has given me a distinct advantage. I already know things that I would usually learn in graduate school. As an undergraduate, I think that such early exposure to real world methodology is critical."
Richard Wagner is a senior physics major from Canton, Ohio. Richard was awarded a 2008-09 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.
[Read what Richard has to say about his Miami experience.]
Nidhi Subbaraman (Class of 2009)
"Miami had the right student-faculty ratio I was looking for in my college classes and a reasonably large graduate program as well. It had the right mix."
Nidhi is a Benjamin Harrison Scholar and the recipient of the Beckman's and the Dean's scholarships for 2008-9. Nidhi's undergraduate research project is developing structural models of the characteristics of the acetylcholine protein. Nidhi is a co-author on the cover article of the May 2009 issue of Journal of Magnetic Resonance. She will attend graduate school at MIT in fall 2009.
[Read our recent conversation with Nidhi.]
Jason Connel Young (Class of 2009)
"I found that Miami put a lot of effort into their students' education and gave them a chance to study abroad ... it made it to the top of my list."
Jason was selected to USA Today's 2009 All-USA College Academic Second Team. He also has been the recipient of a number of prizes and grants while at Miami, such as the Provost's Academic Achievement Award, a few scholarships from the Honors program and even a Rufford Small Grant for Nature Conservation. Jason's independent research project involved creating and using maps of indigenous traditional sites along the Amazon River in Peru.
[Read our recent conversation with Jason.]