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Orteza Graduates Cum Laude from Cornell University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>De La Salle Santiago Zobel (DLSZ) salutes <strong>Melissa Rose Olivarez Orteza<\/strong> (DLSZ 2007) for graduating <em><strong>cum laude<\/strong><\/em> with a degree in BS Biology and Society, minor in Global Health\u00c2\u00a0from <strong>Cornell University<\/strong> in Ithaca, New York last May 29, 2011.<!--more--><br \/>\nApart from her high distinction, her Honors Research\/Thesis entitled <em>Female Mating Behavior and Polyandry in the Dengue Vector Mosquito, Aedes aegypti <\/em>was also given recognition.<br \/>\nAccording to her father, Dr. E. Neal C. Orteza, MD, Melissa will pursue Medicine after a gap year. In the meantime, she has accepted an offer to work as a Program Development Fellow with an NGO company based in New York.<br \/>\nMelissa was a member of the Varsity Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tennis Team of Cornell in her freshmen year and an active officer of the Cornell Filipino Association.\u00c2\u00a0 Dating back to her high school years, DLSZ awarded her with Athlete-of-the-Year for Lawn Tennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De La Salle Santiago Zobel (DLSZ) salutes Melissa Rose Olivarez Orteza (DLSZ 2007) for graduating cum laude with a degree in BS Biology and Society, minor in Global Health\u00c2\u00a0from Cornell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-community","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Melissa Rose O. 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