Calla Glavin

Biography

Calla Glavin, Birmingham, is a senior at the United States Military Academy where she majors in mathematical sciences. Calla is Cadet Brigade Headquarters Company Commander, founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Past in Review student newspaper, and president of the society of women engineers. She is also goalkeeper for the Army women's lacrosse team, and a Big Brother Big Sister mentor. As a student researcher at the disease biophysics group at Harvard University she has developed a mathematical model for a novel method of nanofiber formation for use in wound healing, and at the Los Alamos National Laboratories she worked on algal biofuels.