Skitzy Tobias, Doctor of Nursing Practice (Pediatric Nursing Practioner)
Award: Frances Crittenden Nurse Practitioner Scholarship Endowment Recipient
Mohamed Meghil, PhD with a major in Oral Biology and Maxillofacial Pathology
Award: Balint Orban Memorial Competition Finalist fromThe American Academy of Periodontology
Lindsey Ramirez, PhD with a major in Physiology
Award: Research Distinction award from the Water & Electrolyte Homeostasis Section of the
American Physiological Society at the Experimental Biology Society and the Tum Suden
Award from the American Physiological Society
Mahmoud Abdelbary, PhD with a major in Physiology
Award: Tum Suden Award from the American Physiological Society
Patrica Martinez - Quinones, PhD with a major in Physiology
Award: First Place Winner for Basic Science Paper Competition at the American College of
Surgeons Committee on Trauma Annual Meeting
Mackenzie Hagan, PhD with a major in Cellular Biology & Anatomy
Award: 2019 The American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) Young Investigator
Award and the ASBMR Diversity Travel Grant
Aaron Hutton, Master of Public Administration
Publication: Hunter, L. Y., Robbins, J. W., Ginn, M. H., & Hutton, A. (2019). Meet in the Middle: Terrorism and Centrist Party Vote Shares in Legislative
Elections. Global Policy, 10(1), 60-74.
Emily Hardaway, Master of Public Administration
Fellowship: International City/County Management Association’s Local Government Management Fellowship
Shinjini Chowdhury, PhD with a major in Physiology
Award: First Prize in the graduate student poster competition during Veterans Affairs Research
Week.
Congratulations to the following medical illustration students who won awards at the
2019, 74th Annual Meeting of the Association of Medical Illustrators:
Marci Lessman, MS in Medical Illustration
Award: Versalius Trust Research Grant Scholarship for “Circumcision Surgical Simulation Model.”
Christina Pecora, MS in Medical Illustration
Award: Versalius Trust Research Grant Scholarship for “An Interactive Platform to Enhance Knowledge and Understanding of Ovarian Neoplasm.”
Jessica Pierce, PhD with a major in Cellular Biology & Anatomy
Award: Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Bone & Mineral Research