Colton Treadway

A returning Richards Veterans scholar, Colton Treadway spent four years in the Marine Corps with two deployments — one to Afghanistan and one to Iraq. He received a Combat Action Ribbon and a Navy Unit Commendation medal among others. He is a Maryland native who is working on a double Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Chemistry and carries a 3.67 GPA. He will graduate in December 2019 and plans to go to medical school. He is a volunteer EMT for a local fire department and is an undergraduate Research Assistant. Colton recently won a competition that resulted in his experiment being included on the International Space Station leaving in August. He is also working on biophysics research in the Upadhyaya Lab.

Read Treadway's story on the college's website: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/features/4273