ACHIEVERS
Madalyn White, a freshman at Westmoore High School, was a delegate to the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Lowell, Massachusetts.
An honors-only program for high schools students, the congress is designed for students who want to become physicians or want to enter into medical research fields.
White was nominated by Dr. Robert Darling, medical director of the National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists.
During the three-day program, White joined other students from across the U.S. and heard talks from Noble Laureates and National Medal of Science winners.
Hilary Smith Uyhelji, of Oklahoma City, received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award from Ripon College. She is a 2007 graduate of Ripon College.
Uyhelji is a supervisory research geneticist with the Federal Aviation Administration. She received a Ph.D. in biology from the Georgia Institute of Technology and previously was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame.
At Ripon College, she participated in forensics, two Maymester programs, was an undergraduate laboratory assistant in the biology department and was a research intern at Miami University, of Oxford, Ohio.
At Notre Dame, she did postdoctoral research on mosquitoes and the spread of malaria and other diseases. She also led workshops to expose middle school girls to the STEM fields.
At Georgia Tech, she guided freshman undergraduate teams in service-learning projects and studies of wetlands.
Smith Uyhelji is a native of Mishawaka, Indiana.