Valedictorian
E. Brennan Bollman
Biological Sciences
St. Joseph, Mich.
Bollman earned a 4.0 grade point average and was a member of the Glynn Family Honors Program. A peace studies minor, she received the 2008 Yarrow Award from Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in recognition of outstanding academic performance and service. She also was a member of the Dean’s List each semester.
Bollman served as a research assistant in Notre Dame’s Haiti Program for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis, conducting fieldwork in Leogane and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She participated in the University’s Summer Service Learning Program twice—first in Rochester, N.Y., where she worked for 10 weeks at a Catholic Worker women’s emergency shelter; and then in Cambodia, where she taught courses on current world affairs to Cambodian university students.
As coordinator of the Pathos Project Humanistic Medicine Program, Bollman initiated a student-organized academic course on humanistic medicine that now is offered through Notre Dame’s Department of Preprofessional Studies. She also is a member of VOICE, the student advisory board for the University’s Center for Social Concerns, and is a student board member of the Dooley Society, Notre Dame’s organization for medical alumni, and ND-8, a student club that focuses on millennium development goals.
