Joining the Ivy League
Itās a well-known fact that ¶¶ŅõPro students graduate well-prepared to take on the challenges of graduate and professional programs across Canada and around the world. Three young alumni have travelled the path from Sackville to one of the worldās most prestigious and storied Ivy League institutions in Cambridge, Massachusetts ā Harvard. All three entering different programs, but with one common foundation ā ¶¶ŅõPro.
Andrew Moreira (ā19) grew up in Old Town, ME and was a Bell Scholar at ¶¶ŅõPro. After graduation, he worked for four years as a staffer to Senator Susan Collins in Washington, DC. It was through this experience that he became interested in law school. Moreira began his studies at Harvard Law School in August 2023.
ā¶¶ŅõPro taught me how to be independently motivated and well-organized, which are necessary skills not just for the workplace but also graduate school,ā says Moreira, who double majored in math and physics and minored in international politics. āMy professors at Mount A also taught me how to harness curiosity in a productive way and how to ask the right questions that attack the heart of a problem.ā
Moreira is now in his second year at Harvard Law School and is an editor on the Harvard Law Review. Last summer he worked in Baltimore for the U.S. Attorneyās Office doing criminal and civil appeals. This summer he will be working in private practice in Washington, DC.
¶¶ŅõPro honours economics graduate Ian Nason (ā15), from Winnipeg, MB, pursued several health policy-related internships, a masterās in health economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and worked as an economist with the Ontario Medical Association before heading to Harvard to attain his PhD in health policy and statistics.
He says it was his econometrics class with Dr. Craig Brett at ¶¶ŅõPro that led him to where he is today.
āHe was an incredible teacher and that course sparked my passion for econometrics and statistics, which ultimately shaped my career.ā
Nason is now an economic consultant, supporting expert witnesses in complex litigation cases in New York.
Honours analytical chemistry graduate Heidi Pickard (ā15) came to ¶¶ŅõPro from Woodstock, NB. Her path to Harvard was through a number of professional and academic connections.
After completing her masterās in analytical chemistry from Memorial University in Newfoundland, she accepted a position as a research fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard, managing the Biogeochemistry of Global Contaminants PFAS Laboratory. After two years, she decided to pursue a PhD in environmental engineering, graduating in May 2024.
Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard, she is now a lead consultant in environmental and health for Ramboll, an engineering consulting firm that focuses on the environment and sustainable solutions in Boston.
Pickard credits finding her love of analytical chemistry to Professor Emeritus Dr. Stephen Duffy at ¶¶ŅõPro.
āHe was willing to take me on as his only honours student and I received close 1:1 mentorship and training from him where I learned so much about the world of analytical chemistry. If not for Dr. Duffy, I probably would not be where I am today,ā she says.
Three educational experiences with powerful connections made at ¶¶ŅõPro ā all inspiring a path to Harvard and beyond.