SCRANTON, Pa. — Greta Niedermeyer of Buxton graduated magna cum laude and completed studies in the Special Jesuit Liberal Arts Honors Program from the University of Scranton’s Honors Program, which is one of the Jesuit university’s programs of excellence.
Students in the Honors Program pursue a rigorous education that stresses independent work through close engagement with professors and other honors students, including the preparation, presentation and defense of a research or creative project during their senior year.
A biology major, Niedermeyer’s thesis was “Host Association and Evolutionary Relationships of Avian Haemoproteus and Plasmodium Sampled from Northeastern Pennsylvania”, completed with the guidance of faculty mentor Erica Lasek-Nesselquist, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology.
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