Successful Students

Before attending Coe, Debra Ryun (biology), completed an Associate of Arts degree at Kirkwood Community College, where she received the Outstanding Science Student of the Year award. She took Ecology of Aquatic Systems at the A.C.M. Wilderness Field Station during the summer after her junior year. During the fall semester of her senior year she interned with an organization called Trees Forever and was elected Soil and Water District Commissioner of Linn County, Iowa. After graduation, she accepted a position with Trees Forever as Volunteer and Education Coordinator.

Heather Daniels (biology) is a talented saxophonist and biologist. She played in the Coe College Concert, Jazz, and Pep bands and was selected to the 1994 Iowa College and University All Star Band. A participant in the Coe College Honors Program, she received the following academic honors: election to the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Fraternity, Mortar Board National Honor Society, and Strata as well as being named JoAnne J. Trow Outstanding Sophomore. She served on the pom pom squad, the Residential Board of Directors, and as President of Coe-Greens (an environmental group). Her College Honors project was a study of whale behavior, carried out at the Boston Aquarium. She is the senior student service coordinator for the School of Medicine and Public Health Graduate School, Center for Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin.