Alex Holm-McDowell has been accepted into the University of Kansas Medical School.

She is a 2009 graduate of Peabody-Burns High School and a 2013 graduate of Kansas State University, where she graduated with highest honors with a bachelor of science degree in biology.

She currently is studying to receive a minor degree in conflict analysis and trauma studies at K-State with completion in the spring.

Holm-McDowell will begin her studies at KU in the fall of 2014.

She is the daughter of Brian and Alisa McDowell of Peabody and the late George Holm of Peabody.