This year's Advanced Degree Recognition Ceremony was held in the lower-level auditorium in the Hermes A. Kontos Medical Science Building on Friday, May 10. Congratulations to all of our esteemed advanced degree graduates and award recipients!.
The School of Medicine is very pleased to recognize the recipients of more than 200 departmental, school, university and national awards. Our graduate students have once again proven themselves to be outstanding!
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Prestigious NIH grant sets up neuroscience Ph.D. student for continued success
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