Andrea Selmser’s Triple Play
 

NMU has its first graduate who completed a TRIO program Triple Play. Andrea Selmser participated three TRIO programs hosted by Northern Michigan University; Upward Bound, Student Support Services and McNair Scholars.  As an Upward Bound student, Andrea regularly participated in student leadership conferences, was a 3 year participant in the UB summer program and was a UB Bridge Scholarship recipient in the summer of 2007.

Andrea took advantage of a broad range of opportunities wile an SSS participant. She was an active member of the SSS Student Advisory Board, served as a tutor in the SSS program, and was a Freshman Seminar teaching assistant for SSS. In her ‘spare time’, Andrea consistently excelled in her academics earning Dean’s List honors on a regular basis. As an NMU student she also maintained her connections with UB by serving as a tutor-counselor, office assistant and newsletter editor.

As a member of the McNair Scholars Program inaugural cohort, Andrea completed research in the area of traumatic brain injury in veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. She presented her research at NMU, the regional McNair Scholars conference and at the Federal Interagency Conference on Traumatic Brain Injury in Washington D.C. Andrea is currently participating in the Master of Arts program in Communicative Sciences and Disorders (Speech-Language Pathology) at Michigan State University. Her long term plans are to complete her Ph.D. and return to a university setting as a professor in the field of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences.