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Alumni Achievements

Here's what some Whitworth graduates are doing with their biology degrees:

• Melissa Hinman ,'06, is pursuing a doctorate in biomedical sciences at Case Western Reserve University.
  
  
• Kylie Swisher, '06 (biology and chemistry double major), is earning a doctorate in the department of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the University of Arizona.
  
  
• Kent McVey, Jr., '03, is earning a doctor of dental science degree at the Creighton University School of Dentistry, Omaha, Neb.
  
  
• Dustin Morse, '06, is enrolled in the microbiology doctoral program at the Thermal Biology Institute at Montana State University.
  
  
• Lacey (Jones) Weulfing, '05, was accepted to the Michigan State College of Veterinary Medicine.
  
  
• Sarah Friedrichs, '05, is enrolled in the doctoral program of genetics at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center.
  
  
• Joseph Jertberg, '05, is earning a master's degree in plant pathology from University of California, Davis.
  
  
• Tamar Loeffler, '04, is pursuing a master's degree in cryobiology at Miami University, in Ohio.
  
  
• Kasey Rivas, '00, is a tissue bank tracker with Lifespan Biosciences, a Seattle-based genomics company specializing in molecular pathology.
  
  
• Amy K. Harker-Murray, '94, is a physician at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Minnesota.
  
  
• Kyle Orwig, '90, is a professor at the Pittsburgh Development Center affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. His research focuses on studying stem cell biology and developing new stem cell transplant techniques with the goal of improving or restoring fertility. Orwig, who received his Ph.D. from Oregon State University, has co-authored numerous articles on his research that have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and other leading scientific journals.
  
  
• Jamie Thomas, '99, is a research scientist with J. J. Heinz Co.
  
  
• Primal de Lanerolle, '68, leads a team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago that for the first time demonstrated that DNA transcription in the nucleus of a cell is powered by molecular motors. Their findings, which may demonstrate new ways to treat cancer and other diseases, recently were published in Science.
  
  
• Amy Roberts, '95, is a dentist with the U.S. Air Force.
  
  
• Ara Balkian, '95, is a pediatrician at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
  
  
• Gaylen Warren, '71, is a forensic microscope technologist with Columbia International Forensic Laboratory.
  
  
• George Pappas, '90, is a commercial fisheries biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.