May 25, 2021

Rockstars of the Class of 2021

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From a Rhodes scholar to a WNBA player, a changemaker fighting racism to a researcher studying greener alternatives, the Class of 2021 seriously rocks

Celebrate Lafayette College’s class of 2021 with a look back at just some of our newsroom coverage of this incredible class.

Making History at the College

Victoria Puglia ’21

The second Lafayette student— and first woman at Lafayette— to receive a Rhodes Scholarship

Natalie Kucowski ‘21

The first Leopard in history to be drafted into the WNBA

Changemakers

Savanna Touré ’21

Goldwater Scholarship and Truman Scholarship recipient co-created Freedom Fighters DC, organization dedicated to fighting racism and oppression

Basit Balogun ’21

Co-founded Undocufund, an organization that provides financial support to undocumented students

Making Strides Towards a More Sustainable World

Sasha Neefe ’21

Award winner whose research aims to improve properties of biodiesel as greener alternative to diesel fuel

Brooke Paccione ’21

ASTM International grant recipient; developing a conceptual site model for a former scrap yard

Changing the Game

Joey Illuzzi ’21

Completed extensive research on labor rights in esports

Thomas Stranick ’21 and Kerry Stranick ’21

Sibling duo founded Lafayette College esports

Thinking Outside the Box

Gabrielle Conard ’21

National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship recipient; robot-building extraordinaire

Rabia Demirelli '21

She's advanced entrepreneurial programming at Lafayette

Sharing the Beauty and Power of Art

Sarah Frankel ’21

Rewrote and directed the first main stage production directed by a student in eight years

Mario Sanchez Castillo ’21

Award-winning poet of the College’s annual H. MacKnight Black Poetry Competition

Stars in STEM

Katie Kavanagh ’21

Researched management response to the invasion of two crabs in the Hudson-Raritan estuary

Zev Granowitz ’21

Reaching for the moon through research on new ways to get to space

Zhaoyi Ding ’21

Research on a preventive diagnostic method for strokes blends science, mathematics, and computer science

Matthew Wierzbicki ’21

EMT's passion is researching the connection between seizures and memory

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