Serena Liu graduates as Dartmouth College valedictorian

Serena Liu earned a 4.0 grade point average in pursuit of her bachelor of arts. She majored in biology and minored in economics. A Goldwater Scholarship and Kaminsky Family Fund Award financed her honors thesis in biology.

Serena Liu of Bellevue graduated Sunday as one of five valedictorians in Dartmouth College’s class of 2014.

Liu earned a 4.0 grade point average in pursuit of her bachelor of arts. She majored in biology and minored in economics. A Goldwater Scholarship and Kaminsky Family Fund Award financed her honors thesis in biology.

She received numerous other honors while attending Dartmouth, including induction into Phi Beta Kappa, designation as a Rufus Choate Scholar, a James O. Freedman Presidential Scholar and a recipient of a Paul K. Richter and Evalyn E. Cook Richter Memorial Fund Research Grant.She worked as a tutor and a teaching assistant, held membership in the Handel Society and assisted at the Donald Claflin Jewelry Studio.

Handcrafted jewelry is a favored hobby of Liu’s, as is singing, embroidery, glassblowing, bead making and dancing.

Liu spent one summer as a research assistant to Tianxi Cai of the Harvard School of Public Health, as part of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics summer program.

Liu plans to pursue a PhD in computational biology in the University of Washington genome sciences program.