Space Conference Speaker

Samantha Stoltz

M.S. Student, Applied Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

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Samantha Stoltz, a 2023 Astronaut Scholar, completed her B.S. in Biology at the University of Central Florida’s Burnett Honors College. She was accepted to the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering for Professionals program as a Master of Science student in Applied Biomedical Engineering.

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