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Two BC3 students picked from national applicants to conduct research at CMU, UMass

Butler County Community College students Cody Reep, left, of Butler, and Gwendalyn Myers, of Freeport, have been selected from national applicants for National Science Foundation-funded residential research experiences for undergraduates. Reap is conducting research at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and Myers, at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. They are shown Wednesday, April 24, 2024, on BC3’s main campus in Butler Township. Submitted photo

For the first time since the National Science Foundation began to fund residential programs, two Butler County Community College students have been chosen in the same year and bring to five the number picked by faculty members of host research institutions in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

The selection in 2024 of Cody Reep, 20, of Butler, and Gwendalyn Myers, 19, of Freeport, “validates the fact that we have high-caliber students, offer strong programs and have excellent faculty,” said Matt Kovac, dean of BC3’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics division.

Reap is a general studies student who intends to become a neuroscientist and biomedical engineer.

Myers is a biological science student who expects to become a veterinarian specializing in avian medicine.

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