Education standouts
Mary Jo Rodriguez of Santa Cruz graduated from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn., with a Doctor of Physical Therapy. The college held its fall 2016 commencement ceremony Dec. 17 in the Reif Gymnasium on campus.
Richard Romero of Los Alamos has been admitted to Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, for the fall 2017 semester.
A team of high school students from Los Alamos won the regional competition for the 2017 National Science Bowl last weekend at Highland High School in Albuquerque and will advance to compete in the national finals this spring in Washington, D.C.
The winning team beat out another Los Alamos team in the last rounds of the regional competition, according to a report in the Los Alamos Monitor.
The top 16 high school teams and the top 16 middle school teams in the national finals will win $1,000 for their schools’ science departments. This is the eighth time a Los Alamos Science Bowl team has advanced to the national level.
Kelsey Dobesh, 20, of Santa Fe, a student at Colorado State University, recently was accepted into the school’s Veterinary College — and she’s the fourth generation in her family to do so.
“It started with my great grandfather, and then my grandfather, and then both of my parents graduated from CSU’s vet school,” Dobesh told the Colorado State University Collegian. “It’s the weirdest thing in the whole entire world. It’s not even real.”
She described a childhood surrounded by veterinarians. Her great-grandfather, Edwin Smith, opened up Smith Veterinary Hospital in the early 1940s. He passed the business to his son, Tom Smith, who later placed it in the hands of Kathy and Mike Dobesh, Kelsey Dobesh’s parents. She hopes to join them at the clinic one day.