My name is Alex Meyer and I am a junior involved with the Biological Sciences Scholars Program at The Ohio State University. I’m currently majoring in Zoology and would like to someday attend graduate school. I am unsure of what exactly I will end up doing with animals, but my current goal is to someday become a primatologist. I have always loved animals and I have dreamt about pursuing a career involving animals ever since I was very young. In high school I volunteered at a no-kill animal shelter and heavily researched animal-related topics for speeches and essays. For my senior project, also known as “Capstone,” I shadowed a veterinarian and wrote a research essay, Nonhuman Animal Emotions and Human Morals in Animal Research, which focused on proving that a large range of nonhuman animals are sentient beings and it is therefore immoral to knowingly inflict pain onto them. My project was runner-up for the Matt McCoy Capstone Award for my entire class.

I was born and raised in Upper Arlington, Ohio, and it was never a question whether or not OSU would be the college for me. My older sister and both of my parents graduated from Ohio State, and both of my grandparents were professors here at OSU. I have two older siblings and two precious dogs at home.