KRISTIN KHOR '08 has two passions in life: science and service. Pictured here with Assistant Professor of Biology Brandi Baros '95, Khor is spending her junior year studying biochemistry at Oxford University. Even though she has a double major in biochemistry and psychology, she has found the time to serve as a Peer Project Leader at a local nursing home, to volunteer on projects both local and global (her volunteer work includes not only the Meadville Soup Kitchen but fund-raising for tsunami relief for her home country of Malaysia and other devastated areas), and to work as a coordinator for the Allegheny Student Network, which connects the Meadville community with Allegheny organizations that can help meet their service needs. She is vice president of the International Club, a member of the Alpha Chi Omega social sorority, and a resident advisor in Brooks Hall—and last semester she also served as a peer leader in Associate Professor of Psychology Josh Searle-White's freshman seminar on story-telling. As a high school student, she had a scholarship to study in Singapore, where she tutored hearing-impaired students in science. "I feel like I am a living testimony of the many opportunities and support available at Allegheny," Khor says.
SPYROS PANTELEIMONITIS '06 is a member of a Greek fraternity, Delta Tau Delta, who also happens to be a real Greek—his family owns a tractor-distribution business in Athens. Panteleimonitis also has an unusual combination of academic interests: a double major in economics and philosophy. Panteleimonitis has helped with Make A Difference Day and has tutored in local schools with his fraternity brothers. He spent an Alternative Spring Break in North Carolina, working with Habitat for Humanity on houses for low-income families. He's also prepared to make his way in the global marketplace: Not only does he speak English, but he also speaks Japanese. Panteleimonitis realizes that a double major in economics and philosophy may seem unusual, but he says that philosophy complements the skills that economics fosters. "Philosophy helps with interactions with people," he says. "It improves your rhetoric. It improves your judgment. It encourages you to be skeptical."
VINCE WERNER '06—pictured here working with lasers in one of the College's physics labs—has the unusual combination of a major in physics and a minor in religious studies. Although he'd come to Allegheny knowing he would major in physics, he didn't consider religious studies as a minor until he took a class in the department. "It was nice to think about things a whole lot differently," Werner says. "In physics, you can get the right answer, but in religious studies there are lots of answers." Werner, who was named Male Scholar Athlete of the Year at Allegheny last year, was on the varsity football and track and field teams. He spent a summer working in Budapest with Professor of Physics David Statman. This fall he'll be pursuing a graduate degree in aeronautical engineering at Purdue University.
"RYAN ZUROWSKI is one of the most talented students I've taught in my thirty years at Allegheny," says Professor of English Jim Bulman. "He wears his achievements lightly, with a very becoming modesty. Now that's an unusual combination!" Zurowski, who graduated in May and started graduate school at Stanford University in the fall, is a Shakespeare scholar who plays golf: he earned All Mid-Atlantic Region honors in 2004 and as a senior in high school placed third in the Pennsylvania state tournament. While at Allegheny, he also served on the Honor Committee and the Community Standards Board and participated in the America READS program and the community After School program, serving as a mentor to elementary and middle school students. He spent his junior year at Oxford University.
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