Larsen Morehouse Will Program for People as 2026 Orr Fellow
Thursday, February 05, 2026
Larsen Morehouse, a senior software engineering major, was selected as a 2026 Orr Fellow, where she will impact her community through the operations development program at Old National Bank.
Before her senior year of high school, Larsen Morehouse fell in love with Rose-Hulman, after spending two weeks living and learning on campus through Operation Catapult. As a member of a FIRST Robotics Competition team in high school, Morehouse was not surprised by how much she loved the STEM projects or the chance to work directly with Rose-Hulman faculty in state-of-the-art labs. What surprised her was the people and how welcomed the Rose-Hulman student counselors made her feel.
Morehouse knew then that people were her passion.
Now a senior at Rose-Hulman, Morehouse, a Marshall, Michigan, native, is completing a degree in software engineering with minors in Spanish, data science, and statistics, and aspires to combine those fields to improve the quality of life for others.
Her first role after graduation will seamlessly blend these passions and encourage her to be an engaged member of her new community.
Morehouse was named a 2026 Orr Fellow from a nationally competitive pool of applicants. Orr Fellowship is an early career development program for versatile high-achievers and future-focused businesses in Indianapolis and Evansville, Indiana. The program recruits, assesses, and matches university graduates with high-agency roles in growing Indiana businesses.
After her May 2026 graduation, Morehouse will be paired with Old National Banks' Evansville location and their operations development program, beginning in process automation.
"I want to be in the intersection between business, technology, and people," she said.
The two-year, paid entrepreneurial fellowship connects Morehouse with a cohort of Fellows who will complete leadership development and community service activities together while beginning their careers.
"The Orr Fellowship provides a lot of opportunities to meet other people at a similar stage of life," Morehouse said. "I'm going to be new to the area, so I'm hoping to have people that I can lean on."
Morehouse hopes to connect with a community similar to the one she found at Rose-Hulman in Residence Life. Living in Baur-Sames-Bogart (BSB) Hall her first year, Morehouse admired her resident assistants and sophomore advisers, whose strategic planning and magnetic pull brought everyone on the floor together, an experience she had also enjoyed during Operation Catapult.
"I really loved the community of being able to live with my friends," Morehouse said. "It's like a big sleepover!"
She has served two years as a resident assistant, first on the third floor of Lakeside Hall and currently on the third floor of Apartments West and has dedicated herself to leading the Residence Hall Association as president and, most recently, vice president, enabling her to provide an impactful experience for all campus residents.
"I enjoyed being able to meet all kinds of people and growing in learning how to interact with just about anybody," Morehouse said.
Throughout those interactions, she has delighted in building the bonfire with her residents and the Rover team robot with her peers, but what she has valued most of all has been building the scaffolding for others to succeed.
"The people in my life, whether that's my parents or the other RAs, have been really impactful for me," Morehouse said. "Everybody should have somebody who is in their corner, and if that can be me, I will try to do that."
Morehouse even strives to be the on-call cheerleader for students she's never met, working as a tutor for the AskRose Homework Help line and helping students across the country successfully master their homework assignments.
"Being able to figure out where people are, how to help them, how we can work through that together and get other people to learn has been really awesome," she said.
She has carried her desire to help others through her internships and professional aspirations as well. Though she loved learning new skills at her internships with Kellogg Company, Resultant, and the Air Force — including data visualization, avionics engineering, and data consulting — she found she was most drawn to the human impact. She is proud of her contributions to her team's senior capstone project — a project management tool to help government agencies incorporate security protocols into their work as they go, rather than adding them retroactively — precisely because of its benefit to others.
"Technology is there to help people, so you have to have that people side of things, too," Morehouse said. "We're making things for humans, not just computers."
Adept at both the technical and the societal, Morehouse thrives in programs — both social and software — that prioritize people. When she brings that expertise to Old National Bank via the Orr Fellowship later this year, she will seek to infuse her colleagues, her cohort, and her community with the same vivacity and care that sparked her own passion for the public at Operation Catapult a few short years ago.
Morehouse knew then that people were her passion.
Now a senior at Rose-Hulman, Morehouse, a Marshall, Michigan, native, is completing a degree in software engineering with minors in Spanish, data science, and statistics, and aspires to combine those fields to improve the quality of life for others.
Her first role after graduation will seamlessly blend these passions and encourage her to be an engaged member of her new community.
Morehouse was named a 2026 Orr Fellow from a nationally competitive pool of applicants. Orr Fellowship is an early career development program for versatile high-achievers and future-focused businesses in Indianapolis and Evansville, Indiana. The program recruits, assesses, and matches university graduates with high-agency roles in growing Indiana businesses.
After her May 2026 graduation, Morehouse will be paired with Old National Banks' Evansville location and their operations development program, beginning in process automation.
"I want to be in the intersection between business, technology, and people," she said.
The two-year, paid entrepreneurial fellowship connects Morehouse with a cohort of Fellows who will complete leadership development and community service activities together while beginning their careers.
"The Orr Fellowship provides a lot of opportunities to meet other people at a similar stage of life," Morehouse said. "I'm going to be new to the area, so I'm hoping to have people that I can lean on."
Morehouse hopes to connect with a community similar to the one she found at Rose-Hulman in Residence Life. Living in Baur-Sames-Bogart (BSB) Hall her first year, Morehouse admired her resident assistants and sophomore advisers, whose strategic planning and magnetic pull brought everyone on the floor together, an experience she had also enjoyed during Operation Catapult.
"I really loved the community of being able to live with my friends," Morehouse said. "It's like a big sleepover!"
She has served two years as a resident assistant, first on the third floor of Lakeside Hall and currently on the third floor of Apartments West and has dedicated herself to leading the Residence Hall Association as president and, most recently, vice president, enabling her to provide an impactful experience for all campus residents.
"I enjoyed being able to meet all kinds of people and growing in learning how to interact with just about anybody," Morehouse said.
Throughout those interactions, she has delighted in building the bonfire with her residents and the Rover team robot with her peers, but what she has valued most of all has been building the scaffolding for others to succeed.
"The people in my life, whether that's my parents or the other RAs, have been really impactful for me," Morehouse said. "Everybody should have somebody who is in their corner, and if that can be me, I will try to do that."
Morehouse even strives to be the on-call cheerleader for students she's never met, working as a tutor for the AskRose Homework Help line and helping students across the country successfully master their homework assignments.
"Being able to figure out where people are, how to help them, how we can work through that together and get other people to learn has been really awesome," she said.
She has carried her desire to help others through her internships and professional aspirations as well. Though she loved learning new skills at her internships with Kellogg Company, Resultant, and the Air Force — including data visualization, avionics engineering, and data consulting — she found she was most drawn to the human impact. She is proud of her contributions to her team's senior capstone project — a project management tool to help government agencies incorporate security protocols into their work as they go, rather than adding them retroactively — precisely because of its benefit to others.
"Technology is there to help people, so you have to have that people side of things, too," Morehouse said. "We're making things for humans, not just computers."
Adept at both the technical and the societal, Morehouse thrives in programs — both social and software — that prioritize people. When she brings that expertise to Old National Bank via the Orr Fellowship later this year, she will seek to infuse her colleagues, her cohort, and her community with the same vivacity and care that sparked her own passion for the public at Operation Catapult a few short years ago.