Student
Missouri Southern State University
Missouri Southern State University
Maya Greenquist is a Senior at Missouri Southern State University who graduated from the American School in Japan in 2020. She is an Honors Biomedical Sciences Pre-Medicine major and is a three-time MIAA All-Conference women's soccer player. She is also the Women's Soccer Team Representative for the NCAA DII Student Athlete Association Committee. With SAAC, Greenquist and her fellow student-athlete have collected over $5,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation and 10,000 canned food items for the local homeless shelter Souls Harbor. Individually, Greenquist also founded an annual Basic Biomedical Supplies Drive that has currently collected over $1,500 and 14,000 individual items for Souls Harbor. For her service to the Joplin community, Greenquist received the Dr. Al Cade Beacon of Hope Service Award for over 500+ hours of service while maintaining Dean's List status and a 4.0 GPA. Greenquist is currently a member of a Reptile Physiology Laboratory where she does research on the cardiovascular system in model organisms as well as a Cadaver Laboratory where she does dissection research. Currently the Vice-President of the Pre-Health Major Caduceus Club and the Green Bandana Mental Health Initiative, Greenquist was responsible for the creation and organization of the Annual Artful Medical Symposium Research Conference at Missouri Southern. Despite moderating the conference, Greenquist also placed 2nd for her poster presentation on poetry therapy in terminal patients inspired by her own love of poetry that has gotten her poems "The Heart Braid" and "A Sensational Funeral" published in three different national undergraduate literary anthologies. Greenquist is passionate about dissection, cardiothoracic anatomy, undergraduate pre-medical and medical student education research, as well as campus and community involvement at Missouri Southern State University.
