Genetics Major (B.S.) Spotlight

Matthew Farbaniec is a genetics major from Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Matthew has been working in Assistant Professor Anna O’Brien’s lab.

Riley Wilson is a genetics major from Colorado Springs, Colorado who was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

Bryce Hannon is a genetics major from Winchester, Massachusetts.

Kaley Jean ’21 is a genetics major and Classics minor from Merrimack, NH who is working as a a clinical lab assistant in UNH's COVID testing lab. "While a pandemic isn’t the best way to end my undergraduate career," she says, "I think helping others is."

A team of UNH students have stepped into vital positions to bolster UNH’s battle against the coronavirus. They put in 10-hour shifts this summer when tests needed to be administered and processed quickly, and they continue to administer weekly tests for faculty and staff.

Jessica Leighton is a genetics major and Spanish minor. Along with her involvement in COVID-19 testing on campus for ConvenientMD, she recently joined the staff at the UNH COVID-19 testing and diagnostic lab as a clinical laboratory assistant.

Cassandra Amarello, who earned her bachelor's degree in genetics in 2018, is one of the employees working in the lab and helping keep the UNH community safe.

If you are curious about how to balance the demands of one major and two minors that are all in different colleges at UNH, ask Matthew Rich ’19.