Elise Elizondo

Elise comes from Lake Worth, Florida. She graduated from The Pennsylvania State University, May of 2020, with a B.S. in Plant Sciences and minors in Agronomy, Entomology, International Agriculture, and Music Performance. Originally, she was a Food Science major on a pre-med track and very involved in school, participating in 10 organizations. Elise was admitted into the Women in Science and Engineering Research Internship Program under Dr. Ebony Murrell her first year at Penn State. With Ebony’s help, she conducted a research project in the Kaye Biogeochemistry lab studying the effects of cover crops on corn, depending on the cover crop species’ ability to increase soil nitrogen, which she presented at the Gamma Sigma Delta research expo. She continued to work in the lab until her senior year. The summer of 2018, Elise interned at University of Nebraska-Lincoln through the Research Experience for Undergraduates program. Through the program, she published Soil Microbial Communities Under Cover Crops on the university’s Cropwatch website, and presented a poster at the American Society of Agronomy conference. She performed computational analysis at the Renner lab to develop gene trees in her final semester at Penn State.