Venice Student Graduates From University Of Iowa

Press release from Merit Pages:

June 17, 2021

This spring, some 5,300 University of Iowa undergraduate, graduate, and professional students received their degrees under extraordinary circumstances. With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to upend traditional educational practices across campus and the country, the 2020-21 academic year has been a challenge.

Annika Helverson of Venice, CA was among the students conferred their degrees. Helverson was a student in the Graduate College whose program of study was Biostatistics. The degree awarded was a Master of Science.

For more than a year, Helverson and other Iowa students have made sacrifices to maintain health and safety-taking online courses, wearing face masks, and being mindful of social distance. Through it all, however, Hawkeyes have persisted and excelled. A graduating biomedical engineering student is a 2021 Rhodes Scholar. A biochemistry major was named one of only 17 Churchill scholars in the nation, while two other undergraduates, a math major and a biomedical engineering major, became Goldwater scholars.

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