Alyssa Loving is student speaker at UH Hilo 2015 Spring Commencement
The mathematics major spent a semester studying mathematics in Budapest and summers performing mathematics research at Williams College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Alyssa Loving, a mathematics major with a minor in computer science, will be student speaker at University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Spring Commencement. Born on Hawaiʻi Island and raised in Honomu, Loving has earned numerous academic honors and awards both locally and abroad.
At UH Hilo, Loving has maintained a 3.97 grade point average and received the University of Hawaiʻi Presidential Scholarship, the Pearson Mathematics Underclassman and Graduating Senior Awards, the Pearson Book Award For Outstanding Computer Science Freshman, and the University of Hawaiʻi Centennial Scholarship.
Outside the classroom, she has participated in UH Hilo’s PURE Math program. She also spent a semester studying mathematics in Budapest and summers performing mathematics research at Williams College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Her work has been showcased at national conferences, where she won the outstanding research poster award from the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
She has also earned honorable mention for her achievements by the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship and is a National Merit Commended Scholar.
In addition to her national accomplishments and recognitions, she remains heavily involved with campus life, serving as a mathematics and computer science tutor as well as editor-in-chief of UH Hilo’s art and literary magazine Kanilehua.
Loving will enter a mathematics graduate program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign this fall, where she will continue to pursue her passion in mathematics research.
Spring Commencement at UH Hilo will take place Saturday, May 16, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Edith Kanakaʻole Stadium. Keynote speaker is John Pezzuto, founding dean of the UH Hilo pharmacy college.
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