Four senior students in Dr. Maddison Melchionna’s microbial genetics lab have dived into a project to study what might be hiding in the clear waters of iconic Lake Susan in Montreat. Hannah Jarboe (Mechanicsville, MD), Tamiya Bruce (Charleston, SC), Jaycee Beckham...
As a high school senior, Grayson Roper envisioned his future as a dentist, but after touring Montreat College on a whim, he suddenly found himself chewing on a new career idea in cybersecurity. Roper grew up “just down the mountain from Montreat” in Morganton, North...
For Jonathan Fogo, Montreat College has always been associated with family. Although his hometown is Chattanooga, Tennessee, he has many fun memories of growing up in Montreat. His grandfather, the Rev. Dr. John Newton, taught in the Bible and Religion department at...
As a soccer goalie in college and today as manager of a cyber threat detection and response team, Payton Landy is no stranger to excellence in defense. “I feel like as a goalkeeper, my job was, in a sense, to manage the team in our defensive positioning,” said Landy,...
In eighth grade, Daulton Beard, a Florida native, went on a mission trip to Asheville and immediately fell in love with the mountains. “I remember going home from that trip and telling my parents, ‘Hey, I’m going to find a college in the mountains,’” Beard recalled....
When Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday, February 24, 2022, Andrii Dmytrenko had planned to go to school, but at 5 a.m., his mother woke him up and within two hours they were in the car leaving his hometown of Kyiv and nearly everything he knew and valued. Little did...
