PVAMU Volleyball Alumna Bruna Menezes Out To Make Her Mark In The Engineering Field

ANN ARBOR, Michigan  -- Former Prairie View A&M volleyball standout Bruna Menezes has taken her talents from the volleyball courts to the world of engineering as she's pursuing her doctorate in chemical engineering at the University of Michigan.

A native of Carapicuiba, Brazil, Menezes was a two-year letterwinner for the Lady Panthers as she played during the 2011 and 2012 campaigns after transferring from San Jacinto College.  As a Lady Panther student-athlete, Menezes helped PVAMU win back-to-back SWAC Western Division Championships while earning multiple SWAC Weekly Honors ranging from SWAC Offensive Player and Newcomer of the Weeks.

 

Once her playing career came to a close, Menezes became heavily involved with the Roy G. Perry College of Engineering on the PVAMU campus.  Menezes served as an undergraduate researcher in department as she handled water and ethanol soluble extractives while also doing research on fermentation.  During the past two summers, she expanded her horizons further as an undergraduate researcher at Indiana University in 2013 and a process engineering intern at the engineering firm Stoller Africa in 2014.  In the summer of 2015, Menezes added to her travels as she spent six weeks in China at the Xi'an International Studies University with the PVAMU Honors College.  While in China, Menezes studied the language of Mandarin Chinese in addition to classes in Calligraphy (Chinese Art) and Taiji, which is an ancient Chinese philosophy about the natural world and is one of the central elements of traditional Chinese culture.

Menezes recently completed her studies at PVAMU in the spring of 2015 as a Summa cum laude (4.0 GPA) graduate in chemical engineering.  She was also active in the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society in addition to serving as secretary of PVAMU's American Institute of Chemical Engineers chapter.  She was also named the Most Outstanding Student of the Roy G. Perry College of Engineering this past academic year.

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