BOZEMAN — When Cedar Stellon O’Donnell was in high school in Fairbanks, Alaska, she visited Montana State University as part of a tour of colleges she was considering. She wasn’t expecting to decide on attending MSU so quickly, but she said the energy of the campus during that visit made a lasting impression.

“Everyone here seemed proud to be an MSU student, and they were so excited about what MSU had to offer,” Stellon O’Donnell said. “The students just seemed to have such excitement about being a Bobcat and being at MSU.”

Now, three years later, Stellon O’Donnell is a junior pre-med student majoring in chemistry and biochemistry. She has taken on multiple roles at MSU, from student ambassador for the College of Letters and Science to peer advocate for Campus Civil Rights to vice president of the MSU chapter of Delta Gamma.

And when life gets challenging, the people she found on campus helped her through.