Scholar Profiles

“The guys on the team always ask ‘Really?’ when I say I’m a Scholar and in the Honors College, but they respect the fact that I care about school.”
These are the numbers:

• 108,917 screaming fans,
• 88 Penn State football players,
• 100 yards between victory and defeat, and
• 1 Schreyer Scholar playing offensive guard.

That one is Stefen Wisniewski, who in 2007 was one of the most highly sought-after offensive tackles in the country. Read the full story...

“I’m interested in how complex living things are and how everything fits together so well to make an organism. By studying how things go wrong, you can better understand how things work normally.”
Failure has an upside. Leah Liu learned early on that science needs to be more than a culmination of its successes. The Schreyer Honors College Scholar remembers what working in Penn State research labs has taught her. Read the full story...

“Make the difficult look easy; make the easy look beautiful. No matter how hard it is, it needs to look beautiful or it isn’t magic.”
The transition from student to performer is a seamless one for Nathan Kepner, a junior in the Schreyer Honors College majoring in secondary education. Just have a neatly pressed suit on hand, a Frank Sinatra song at the ready, and a saxophone on deck to fly and disappear before your eyes. Read the full story...

“Volunteer” is one way to describe junior finance major Simran Grover. But in her years of charitable service, she has also been a teacher, a leader, a friend, and recently, an award-winner. Simran became the first to receive the Robert “Bear” Koehler Award in 2007 to recognize her altruism and continues to take on new volunteer projects every semester. Read the full story...

Turn the pages of the American Chemical Society’s 2007 annual report, and you’ll find senior George Khoury pictured next to renowned doctors and researchers. Turn a corner on campus, and you’ll most likely find the chemical engineering major heading toward one of his many extracurricular activities, including his role as vice president of the Commonwealth Council for Student Governments. Read the full story...

When Liz Francis vowed to one day save people’s lives, she did not realize that one day could be right now. Since establishing a Penn State chapter for GlobeMed in 2006, the senior Premedical and Spanish dual major has traveled to Honduras to help improve the well-being of the country’s residents. Read the full story...