2008 Graduate Student Awards
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2008 Graduate Student Awards
The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy held its Graduate Achievement Banquet on January 26.
UNC-CH Graduate School Scholarships
Two first-year doctoral students from the School were recipients of merit assistantships. The UNC Graduate School awards merit assistantships to promising incoming graduate students, with the objective of maintaining and increasing the quality of graduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill. The School’s recipients are:
- Beth Vasiveich, Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics
- Christina Won, Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
The UNC Graduate School also awards a few competitive merit fellowships each year to incoming graduate students with exceptional potential. The Royster Society of Fellows is an interdisciplinary, university-wide fellowship program that is designed to broaden students’ intellectual horizons and develop their leadership skills through discussions with fellows from other departments, presentations, and service to the University and community.
- Roshawn Watson, a third-year student in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
Internal Fellowships
The Eli Lilly and Company Foundation Fellowship
This program is designed to foster tomorrow’s leaders for industry, academia or government by supporting a high level of scientific expertise focused on the critical issues of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacodisposition.
- Xin Ming, working in the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics with Dhiren Thakker, PhD
- Jeannie Padowski, working in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics with Gary Pollack, PhD
- Brandon Swift, working in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics with Kim Brouwer, PhD
The GlaxoSmithKline Fellowship
This fellowship, sponsored by a combination of GSK endowment proceeds and private donations to the School, is awarded to a student who makes outstanding contributions to the Graduate Student Organization and the School’s graduate programs in general. The process is peer-review and the recipient is selected by the GSO.
- Melissa Butler, working with Matt Maciejewski, PhD, in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy
The Amgen Fellowship
Amgen, a global biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets important human therapeutics based on advances in cellular and molecular biology, sponsors a fellowship for a third- or fourth-year graduate student in Pharmaceutical Sciences whose research is focused on drug disposition or drug delivery.
- Will Proctor, working Dhiren Thakker, PhD, in the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics.
External Fellowships
Awards from the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education
The AFPE supports the education of pharmaceutical scientists by identifying and supporting outstanding students who show exceptional potential. The fellowship awards are supplemented by private donations to the School to provide full stipends and tuition for predoctoral fellows:
- Laura Bonifacio, working in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products with Michael Jarstfer, PhD
Awards from the National Institutes of Health
- Venita Gresham, working in the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics with Howard McLeod, PharmD
- Pierre Morieux, working in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products with Hal Kohn, PhD
Awards from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation
PhRMA provides funding for research and for the education and training of scientists who have selected pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, informatics, or health outcomes as a career choice.
- Martin Telko, working with Tony Hickey, PhD, in the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics
- Will Proctor, working with Dhiren Thakker, PhD, in the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics
Awards from the GEM Fellowship
GEM provides funding to minority students who pursue doctoral degrees in the natural science disciplines—chemistry, physics, earth sciences, mathematics, biological sciences, and computer science. Applicants to this program are accepted as early as their junior undergraduate year, as well as candidates currently enrolled in a Master’s of Engineering program and working professionals.
- Sherket Peterson, first-year student in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products