Christa Cheatham is a student at Purdue University studying Animal Sciences with the goal of attending veterinary school. She has a 3.78 GPA and studied abroad in Haiti, where she helped at an orphanage. Her work experience includes research assisting at Purdue laboratories studying diseases in mice and gait analysis in dogs. She has also worked in a histopathology lab examining tissue samples. Upon graduation, she aims to join the research team of a pharmaceutical or biotech company.