friends. I don’t see this as a down- side. I’m very adaptable and open to change now, and I’m not afraid to try new things,” says Eickmeier, who received a small scholarship from MOAA’s Southwest Illinois Chapter in addition to a loan from the schol- arship fund.
Eickmeier attended Carnegie Mel-
lon University in Pittsburgh, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering with a minor in economics. He went on to get an MBA from the same university and now works as a regional operations manager at McMaster-Carr, a leading industrial supply company. His previ- ous job was in engineering at General Electric Co. He says he took a big risk when he decided to leave engineering, as it was what he knew best. “I felt it was the right thing to do.
MOAA really helped make this pos- sible, because I was in a relatively good fi nancial position to take a risk with my career,” says Eickmeier. “I’m not sure I would have been willing to do so if [I were] facing the pressure of a more conventional student loan with high-interest payments.”
Scientific senses In addition to a loan, Brendan Lehnert received a designated scholarship funded by a grant from the Barnes Family Foundation through the MOAA Scholarship Fund. He attended Stanford University in California, where he received a Bachelor of Sci- ence in biomedical computation. He went on to earn a doctorate in neuro- biology from Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Mass. Lehnert now works as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School as part of a team of scientists seeking to better understand the peripheral and spinal cord circuits that underlie a person’s sense of touch. “Recently, our work has uncovered new classes of neurons in the skin and new roles for cutaneous neurons in
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Brendan Lehnert
Stanford University Biomedical Computation 2006
After graduating from Stanford University, Brendan Lehnert went on to earn a doctorate in neurobiology from Harvard Medical School.
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