Finn Walsh
Finn Walsh
Finn Walsh, from Atlanta, GA, is majoring in genetics at the University of Georgia with a minor in Spanish and certificates in infectious diseases and immunology. She is an undergraduate researcher in the lab of Dr. Andrew Park, where she has worked to characterize factors that impact parasite sharing between marine and terrestrial mammals. During a Spanish language program in Costa Rica, she interned at the BIOMOL Lab at Universidad Veritas, where she assisted in collecting data on genetic differences in Costa Rican sloth populations and monitoring local shark meat sales. She spent a semester abroad at the University of Oxford and returned last summer to research bacterial cell division under Dr. Joanna Szczepaniak. She has studied health systems in South Africa, veterinary disease diagnostics in India, and vector ecology in the Southeastern United States.
Finn is a member of the UGA Medical Reserve Corps and has served on the leadership team of MRC Students at UGA since her freshman year. Currently president of the organization, she coordinates events that train students in and promote emergency preparedness and response skills. She is a Peer Learning Assistant for an introductory biochemistry class, a volunteer at Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital, and co-leads a book club focusing on medicine in literature. In 2024, she was selected as a William Moore Crane Leadership Scholar in recognition of outstanding leadership and campus involvement. In her free time, she is learning aerial arts at Canopy Studio and enjoys reading sci-fi and fantasy novels.
As a Marshall Scholar, Finn plans to apply for the MSc in Medical Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh for her first year.