Maria Michta-Coffey ’08, an Olympic race walker and biomedical scientist, was added to the Society for Science’s “Notable Alumni” list, which includes 15 Nobel Prize winners, 2 Fields Medal recipients, 28 MacArthur Fellows, and 72 Rhodes Scholars. Michta-Coffey, a member of the LIU Athletics Hall of Fame, is a physician assistant as well as a two-time Olympian with American records in the 5km, 10km, 15km, and 20km distances of race walking.
