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[email protected] | Cell: 510-384-6574 Pac-12 students are known for their athletic success, but they are also impressive, complete people with outside interests, diverse backgrounds, extracurricular activities, interesting families, busy schedules, and full lives. The release for this week’s competition is focused on who California students are in the classroom and community. ACADEMIC SPOTLIGHT TOP PERFORMERS With perfect APR scores for multiple years in a row, Cal’s women’s Many of Cal’s standouts on the gymnastics squad includes a number of impressive scholars, but with the gym floor this year are also Golden Bear award for the highest grade point average among her team, senior standouts in the classroom, Serena Leong sets the bar. The bioengineering major, who is set to graduate including: in December this year, currently carries a 3.8 GPA. • Zoe Draghi – BB & FX 3.31 GPA (Legal Studies) Leong’s studies aren’t limited to just the classroom. Since May 2014, she’s also • Jessie Howe – UB, BB & FX been a student research assistant in Berkeley’s Sohn Lab. In the lab, she 3.24 GPA (Legal Studies) designed and optimized a microfluidic device that resulted in more efficient • Arianna Robinson – V, FX separation of cancer cells from whole blood. In addition, she developed a 3.3 GPA (Undeclared) microfluidic leukocyte capture chamber that further purified cancer cells • Amber Takara – UB from whole blood, and prepared lab experiments for her microfluidic device.