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Moon High School Grad Receives Prestigious Pitt Award
The 2006 valedictorian was honored for her studies on economic development and alternative energy abroad.
The University of Pittsburgh has honored a former Moon student who has traveled the world and studied biochemical warfare.
Alexis Nolfi, a 2006 Moon Area High School graduate, received the Emma Locke Memorial Award for academic achievement last month at Pitt's Honors Convocation Ceremony, according to the
As a student at Pitt, Nolfi traveled to Brazil, Vietnam and Taiwan to study economic market development and sustainable alternative energy. She also worked to develop biochemical warfare detection as well as a pulmonary artery catheterization simulator used by medical students at the university.
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Nolfi, who was valedictorian of her class at Moon, will graduate summa cum laude from the university in May with a double major in bioengineering and psychology and minor in chemistry with a concentration in cellular and medical product engineering.
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