Margretta Murphy
1000 E 22nd St. Tucson, AZ 85713
Phone: 4805442185  E-Mail: mamurphy@email.arizona.edu
Education
University
B.S. Environmental Science, Ecology; Public Health Minor
University of Arizona, Fall 2011-May 2015 (Expected Graduation Date)
High School
Mesquite High School, Gilbert, AZ, 2011
Top 10% of class, National Honors Society, Japanese Honors Society
Accomplishments
• Wildcat Excellence Scholarship—Full tuition scholarship that
requires a minimum of 3.0 GPA and 30 units per year.
• Dean’s List and Dean’s List with Honors—minimum of 3.5 GPA for
Dean’s List, and 4.0 for Dean’s List with honors
Fall 2011-Present
Fall 2011, Spring 2012
• 3.5 GPA (Spring 2014) overall, 3.3 Science GPA (current)
Research Experience
• Enquist Lab, University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology—worked for Ph.D. Candidate Julie Messier
over the course of four semesters (including summer), doing lab work
ranging from tree ring dating to wet lab work and computer image
analyses. Also completed an independent research project in Fall
2013 entitled “Comparing the Leaf Economic Spectrum on Large and
Small Scale.”
August 2012-December 2013
• Rich Lab, University of Arizona, Department of Soil, Water, and
Environmental Science—worked on Meta-proteomic analyses of soil
through protein extractions as well as compiling protocols for the
Trans-Proteomic Pipeline program.
Summer 2013, Summer 2014
• Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona—Tree ring
dating and measurements of relative growth rate of hardwood species.
May 2013-August 2013
Professional Development
• Academic Resident Assistant—worked in the dorms as a tutor and
general academic resource for residents, helping to raise the average
Fall 2012-Spring2013
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GPA of the entire residence hall over the course of a year.
• Botany Volunteer at AZ Desert Museum—pulled buffelgrass in the
Tucson Mountain Basin and learned about invasive species; Spring
2014