Noelle Cornelio

Class of 2015
Hometown: Holmdel, NJ

Noelle Cornelio, of Holmdel, NJ graduated with degrees in Biology and Economics, and a minor in Mathematics. Upon graduation, Noelle began working at Pharmerit, an international pharmaceutical consulting company. She plans on working at the Bethesda, MD branch for two years before pursuing a Ph.D. in Health Economics. During her internship at Market Access Solutions, Noelle performed a cost analysis of osteosarcoma and presented this research at a conference in Amsterdam. Noelle also interned at the nonprofit Aarohi, where she taught basic health literacy to women and children in a remote village in the central Himalayas. “The Levine Scholars Program enabled me to travel across the world to pursue my passions, supported me as I developed new professional goals and surrounded me with the most motivated cohort of students at UNC Charlotte,” Noelle said. On campus, Noelle was an active student leader. She was a founding member and president of the UNC Charlotte chapter of Alpha Omega Epsilon, a sorority for women in engineering and the technical sciences. She also led two projects in Enactus, a global student organization dedicated to helping the community through entrepreneurial ideas. She worked in Dr. Christine Richardson’s lab and co-authored her first research publication, which demonstrated that DNA double-stranded breaks are repaired by interchromosomal recombination. As an out-of-state student she reminisced, “Attending UNC Charlotte made a Jersey girl fall in love with the South.”