May 10, 2023
Andrea Wright, a biochemistry major from Plainfield, Indiana, is the Distinguished
Student for 2023 from Trine University’s Rinker-Ross School of Health Sciences.
Wright was recognized with other Distinguished Students during the university’s honors ceremony on Thursday, May 4.
Wright graduated summa cum laude and will attend medical school at Indiana University in the fall.
She was a two-year captain of Trine’s women’s soccer team, MIAA Senior Sportswoman of the Year and was named to the MIAA academic honor roll for four years. She served as president of Health Science Association, vice president of Theta Phi Alpha sorority, secretary for Order of Omega Greek Honors Society, treasurer for Delight Women's Ministries and a member of Doctors without Borders.
“We should be proud of all our accomplishments and look forward to the many successes to come in the future,” she said. “These past few years have taught us to be resilient when all the unforeseen challenges came our way. As we move into the next chapter of our lives, we will take the resilience we have learned with us.”
Trine University’s Cold Case Unit hosted “Justice Unlocked: Women in Criminal Justice Symposium” in the Mark and Sarah Music/Ruoff Mortgage Esports Arena on March 25.
Trine University and Freedom Academy are partnering to offer adult learners a path to advanced nursing degrees.
Kiruba "Rupa" Shanmugam, a 1995 Trine University electrical engineering graduate who now serves as president, chief executive officer and majority owner of SoPark Corporation in Buffalo, New York, will present the keynote address to graduates from the university’s Detroit, Phoenix and Reston, Virginia, education centers on Saturday, May 3.