West Seattle student Micah Horwith of West Seattle, son of Karen Horwith and Robert Horwith, has recently graduated, with high honors, from Swarthmore College with a bachelor of arts degree in biology and English literature with a minor in English literature. Horwith is a graduate of Garfield High School, graduated on Sunday, May 28.

Horwith was a member of Sigma Xi and received the A. Price Heusner Scholarship, the William & Florence Ivins Scholarship, a Morrell-Potter Summer Stipend, and the Edward Newton Library Prize. He was a research and teaching assistant and a writing associate (peer tutor) and wrote for Spike, the humor magazine.

In the future, Horwith plans to enter the Ph.D. program in biology at the University of Washington.

Swarthmore is a liberal arts college whose mission combines academic excellence with social responsibility and has an enrollment of 1,450.