Courtney is an honors student graduating with a Bachelors of Science in Engineering as a Biomedical Engineering major with a minor in Electronics and Systems. Having consistently made the Dean’s list, being a both a Babbidge and New England Scholar, and recipient of the Society of Women’s Engineers Mission Award, Courtney was featured in an article of the UConn Magazine “Engineering Her Best Self”.  She is recognized by Associate Dean Daniel Burkey, as someone who’s “service to the UConn community and beyond is unparalleled and cannot go unmentioned.”

Courtney joined the UConn Society of Women’s Engineers when she first came to UConn, has served in three different leadership positions and is now President.  In this role she has been very involved in the Vergnano Institute of Inclusion, promoting hard, yet important discussions, as well as participating in outreach for the Multiply Your Options, which empowers young women with the confidence to pursue their passion in the STEM field. Additionally, she is an active member of Kappa Alpha Theta, mentoring stem students and being involved in HuskyTHON for the past 4 years, and has been instrumental in the planning of philanthropic events to raise money for court appointed special advocates (CASA) volunteers to help support neglected children in the foster care system in New Haven, CT.

Courtney’s own ambitions has driven her to the development of a Smart Shunt System with a Focus on Spectrophotometry to Monitor Cerebral Spinal Fluid. Her efforts in this project will contribute to the greatly improved quality of life for patients with hydrocephalus, and prevent unnecessary hospitalizations. Having been an Intern at Medtronic, one of the largest medical device companies in the world, Courtney will be starting a two-year rotation program as an R&D Engineer at Medtronic in their Surgical Innovations department. Her interests in the medical device field are many and rage from working in a hospital with physicians as a Field Clinical Engineer to exploring the growing world of surgical robotics.