Honors and Awards
Honors and Awards – October 2023
Oct. 31, 2023—Sarah Reed (G3) and Candace Grisham (G3) received the 2023 Levi Watkins Jr. MD Award for their outstanding contributions in improving diversity, equity, and inclusion!
Honors and Awards – September 2023
Sep. 28, 2023—Kimmy Bress (G2) received a Neurodiversity Inspired Science & Engineering Graduate Trainee Fellowship from the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation and received a Russell G. Hamilton Graduate Leadership Institute Professional Development and Training Grant! Kimmy’s project is “Sensorimotor Control of Facial Expression in Autism” using MRI to study why facial expression is atypical in autism. Bryn Sierra...
Honors and Awards – August 2023
Aug. 30, 2023—Avery Bogart (G3) received her NIH NRSA F30! Drew Kittleson (G2) was awarded a three-year Clinical and Translational Science Award from VICTR to fund his project on “Functional activation and connectivity of the human posterior insula in schizophrenia”!
Honors and Awards – July 2023
Jul. 30, 2023—Yasminye Pettway (G4) was selected as the Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar and will be mentored by the 2023 Vanderbilt Prize Scholar in Biomedical Science, Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft. The Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar is someone who demonstrates excellent leadership qualities through their research and service to the scientific community and characteristics that exhibit outstanding potential to...
Honors and Awards – June 2023
Jun. 24, 2023— Riley Bergman (G4), Evelyn Kandov (G2), and Thomas Li (G3) all received F30s this month! Ayaka Sugiura (M4) and Camille Wang (M4) received highly competitive P.E.O. Scholar Awards. Recipients of the $20,000 awards from P.E.O. International, a philanthropic organization based in Des Moines, Iowa, are women from the United States and Canada pursuing...
Congratulations to the 2023 Vanderbilt MSTP Graduating Class!
May. 30, 2023—Congratulations to our 2023 Vanderbilt MSTP Graduates! The table below lists their next steps. Many of our graduates were recognized with awards at class day! Drs. Margaret Axelrod, Bradley Reinfeld, and Matthew Madden (’23) received The Dean’s Award for Research which is presented to the graduating medical students who best exemplify the attributes that lead...
Honors and Awards – May 2023
May. 30, 2023—Dr. Ayesha Muhammad (’23) was named this year’s Founder’s Medalist for the School of Medicine! Since 1877, Vanderbilt has awarded a gold medal to the student graduating with first honors from each of the university’s 10 schools and colleges. Read more about Ayesha and the rest of the 2023 Founder’s Medalists here. Matthew Loberg...
Honors and Awards – April 2023
Apr. 26, 2023— Drew Kittleson (G1) and Simone Herzberg (G3) won the Robert F. Miller Award for Community Service and Engagement from the School of Medicine at Cadaver Ball! This is “awarded to students who have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to service.” Dr. Ayesha Muhammad (M4) received the Michael J. Fowler Award for Educational Excellence during Cadaver...
Honors and Awards – March 2023
Mar. 31, 2023—Victor Borza (G2) received his NIH NRSA F31 fellowship! Derek Doss (G2) received his NIH NRSA F30 fellowship! Ansley Kunnath (G2) was recently awarded a Lacy Fischer Interdisciplinary Research Grant for her project titled “Audiovisual Plasticity in Cochlear Implant Users: An fNIRS-EEG Study”!