Alexandria Volkening: Class of 2011 valedictorian
Alexandria Volkening was named the valedictorian of the UMBC class of 2011.
Her grades kept her on the President’s List throughout her time at UMBC; she was named Outstanding Senior in Mathematics, admitted to Phi Beta Kappa and awarded both a UMBC Premier Scholarship and an ITT Scholarship. She was a member of the Honors College and a Meyerhoff Scholars Affiliate, and she became active helping other students succeed, working as a teaching assistant in honors calculus. She volunteered extensively in the community as a member of the Shriver Living Learning Center, helping out in an inner city elementary school as a math volunteer one year and, more recently, teaching aerobics at a senior center. She has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to study applied mathematics at Brown University.
You will find more information on the announcement page.
Her grades kept her on the President’s List throughout her time at UMBC; she was named Outstanding Senior in Mathematics, admitted to Phi Beta Kappa and awarded both a UMBC Premier Scholarship and an ITT Scholarship. She was a member of the Honors College and a Meyerhoff Scholars Affiliate, and she became active helping other students succeed, working as a teaching assistant in honors calculus. She volunteered extensively in the community as a member of the Shriver Living Learning Center, helping out in an inner city elementary school as a math volunteer one year and, more recently, teaching aerobics at a senior center. She has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to study applied mathematics at Brown University.
You will find more information on the announcement page.
Posted: December 25, 2013, 2:57 PM
