Jalynn Murry graduated from Baldwin High School in 2021. During Murry’s high school years she was very successful in her academics, especially Science and she was also involved in extra-curricular activities. 

Recently, Murray received some of the biggest news of her life, her dream opportunity at her dream school.

Murry did a lot in high school and has worked extremely hard over the years, which she believed was very helpful helping her recently get accepted into the University of Notre Dame into the doctoral program.

“I worked on a lot of different content areas to help grow my knowledge,” Murry said. “Working on ecological projects, working as a Teacher’s Assistant in a genetics lab, and working as a Research Experience for Undergraduates in the Blagg Lab at Warren Center at Notre Dame all helped me immensely.”

Murry did other school activities that she also focused on that were other other ideas for her future.  

“Another thing that helped me was also being well rounded and continuing interests outside of science such as theatre,” Murry said. 

Murry has many future goals with her career and education.

“My future goals are to educate and develop further research on alpha-galactose syndrome, ultimately building a framework for understanding the disease,” Murry said. 

Murry started a lot of college classes in high school that helped her a lot with getting a head start.

“I took classes such as Composition, College Algebra, and AP Biology that made navigating college level classes much more manageable,” Murry said. 

Murry left Baldwin High School impacted greatly by many teachers. Getting into a school like this isn’t easy, so having a teacher that you can look back on and appreciate is very special. 

“I appreciate quite a few teachers from my time at BHS,” Murry said. “Mr. Ising is one of the main reasons I decided science could be a possible future path for myself, along with Dr. Yoo. Mrs. Schoendaller, Mrs. Naughtin, Mrs. Buffum, and Ms. Jacobsen also helped me grow in other content areas and showed me that not everything has to be scientific all of the time. I greatly appreciated that outlook.”