Ashley Lahti will deliver the student address at the Wartburg College Commencement Sunday, May 22. 
Wartburg President Darrel Colson chose Lahti, who’s majoring in neuroscience with minors in leadership and biology, to give the remarks on behalf of the Class of 2016 at the ceremony beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the Hoover Fieldhouse & Track in the Wartburg-Waverly Sports & Wellness Center.
Lahti is a Regents Scholar and a recipient of the Dean’s Honor Cord, awarded to seniors with the top 40 cumulative GPAs, and is the outstanding senior in neuroscience. In addition to being inducted into three honor societies, Lahti has served as a biology supplemental instruction leader, tutor and student class assistant and is the president and founder of the Bringing/Raising Awareness in Neuroscience (BRAiNS) Club.
Through her experience at Wartburg West, the college’s urban studies program in Denver, Colo., Lahti interned at Craig Hospital. The lacrosse captain also is active in Habitat for Humanity, Adopt-A-Grandparent, Student Ambassadors and Unified Sports Day.
“Wartburg has provided me with the opportunity to play sports, join multiple clubs, spend a summer in Denver, work with wonderful people and learn from phenomenal professors,” Lahti said. “As a transfer student, I know firsthand that is not the case at every college, and I am very grateful for all that Wartburg has enabled me to do.”
Lahti, of Turtle Lake, Wis., is the daughter of Dudley and Lea Lahti. She plans to pursue a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree at the Mayo School of Health Sciences in Rochester, Minn.
Ashley Lahti
Wartburg President Darrel Colson chose Lahti, who’s majoring in neuroscience with minors in leadership and biology, to give the remarks on behalf of the Class of 2016 at the ceremony beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the Hoover Fieldhouse & Track in the Wartburg-Waverly Sports & Wellness Center.
Lahti is a Regents Scholar and a recipient of the Dean’s Honor Cord, awarded to seniors with the top 40 cumulative GPAs, and is the outstanding senior in neuroscience. In addition to being inducted into three honor societies, Lahti has served as a biology supplemental instruction leader, tutor and student class assistant and is the president and founder of the Bringing/Raising Awareness in Neuroscience (BRAiNS) Club.
Through her experience at Wartburg West, the college’s urban studies program in Denver, Colo., Lahti interned at Craig Hospital. The lacrosse captain also is active in Habitat for Humanity, Adopt-A-Grandparent, Student Ambassadors and Unified Sports Day.
“Wartburg has provided me with the opportunity to play sports, join multiple clubs, spend a summer in Denver, work with wonderful people and learn from phenomenal professors,” Lahti said. “As a transfer student, I know firsthand that is not the case at every college, and I am very grateful for all that Wartburg has enabled me to do.”
Lahti, of Turtle Lake, Wis., is the daughter of Dudley and Lea Lahti. She plans to pursue a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree at the Mayo School of Health Sciences in Rochester, Minn.