Physics Alumna Stella von Meer attends the International Graduate Program in Medical Neurosciences at the Charite Medical University in Berlin.

Stella, who graduated in Dec. 07, has been a student researcher in cellular biophysics, conducting patch-clamping experiments on ion channels. She had presented her results at a Regional Meeting of American Chemical Society in Houston in 2007, and co-authored 3 presentations at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society in New Orleans in 2008.  At Loyola, Stella received the Marlow Scholarship in 2006-7, Benedetto-Maring Scholarship in 2007, and was awarded the Benedetto Award, given by the Physics Department to the most outstanding senior.