Luxanna Sands

Luxanna Sands graduated from Topeka High School and is currently attending William Jewell College as a sophomore with a 3.709 GPA. She is currently a student-athlete as well, involved with the women's soccer team. Luxanna began freshman year as a civil engineering major, but made the decision to pursue a physics major instead within the dual-degree program at Jewell, with the aim to eventually study for a bachelor's in mechanical engineering at a separate institution after completing the bachelor's of physics at Jewell. She spent the previous summer as a physics research assistant at Jewell, working with Dr. Blane Baker and Dr. Maggie Sherer. This position allowed her to have the opportunity to collect data on specific stars alongside Sherer at an observatory in Arizona. She helped work on compiling this data back at Jewell, and then spent the rest of the summer working with both Sherer and Baker on Matlab modeling and refining lab processes for the next semester's students.