4th Quarter, 2008 Medical Professions Scholarship Winner Mara Winters Mara M. Winters is a 2007 graduate of Christopher Newport University with a B. A. in Biology with an emphasis on health. Currently she is serving as Facility Coordinator of the Freeman Center Sport and Fitness Pavilion. She as recently earned her Group Instructor Certification from …
4th Quarter, 2007 Medical Professions Scholarship Winner Margaux McClure “I came to the United States when I was 10 years old. I was born and raised in France and could not speak any English when we moved to California. However, I have overcome this language barrier. I plan to go to the University of California …
2nd Quarter, 2008 Medical Professions Scholarship Winner Isabel Castro “I will be attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this coming Fall 2008. I am excited to study Biology and later go on to become an obstetrician/gynecologist. It has always been a dream of mine to work with medicine but I was unsure …
3rd Quarter, 2007 Medical Professions Scholarship Winner Jonathan Andersen “My name is Jonathan Andersen and I am a current senior at Holy Cross. I am a psychology major with premedical concentrations. Since my freshman year I have been focused on a career as a psychiatrist, thus combining my love of psychology with my strong desire …
3rd Quarter, 2006 Medical Professions Scholarship Winner Ryan Yates “I was born and raised in Providence, Utah where I attended Mountain Crest High School. I continued my education at Wabash College, a small, private, all-male, liberal arts college in Crawfordsville, IN where I earned a BA in Philosophy. While attending Wabash, I took a two-year …
1st Quarter, 2006 Medical Professions Scholarship Winner Megan Kowalski “While at college, I had the opportunity to participate in research and completed my Senior Honors Research Project on The Role of Carbohydrate Metabolism in the Regulation of Feeding Behavior in Larvae of the Corn Earworm Moth (Heliothis zea). After graduating college in 2000, I was …
2nd Quarter, 2007 Medical Professions Scholarship Winner Cindy Barg “I am a single mother, and an older student returing to school after years of devoting myself to raising two lovely young girls on my own while maintaining two jobs. All three of us will be in school at the same time and despite the astronomical …
1st Quarter, 2007 Medical Professions Scholarship Winner Alison Dormer “A little about me: I’m just beginning my third year of medical school at Emory, and have just finished my first clerkship in obstetrics and gynecology, which is one of the fields I’m most interested in. In the past few weeks, I’ve finally had a taste …
4th Quarter, 2006 Medical Professions Scholarship Winner Emilia Raszkiewicz “I am a first generation college student and only child of my family in the U.S., my parents are Polish immigrants and my upbringing has led me to develop the fascinating, often challenging dual perspective resulting from my American and Polish cultural traditions. From a young …
2nd Quarter, 2006 Medical Professions Scholarship Winner Corinna Beale “I originally got interested in becoming a veterinarian when I worked at a small animal hospital in Boston, MA. Since then I have worked in the animal behavior department at Tufts eterinary school, traveled to Kenya to work with large mammals, and spent a summer working …
4th Quarter, 2005 Medical Professions Scholarship Winner Jacqueline Mann “My ultimate dream is to become a practicing veterinarian in my hometown of Carrollton, Illinois. I was born and raised in rural Greene County by my parents, Dean and Carole Mann. I have two brothers, Joshua and Jacob, and a sister, Jennifer. During the course of …
3rd Quarter, 2005 Medical Professions Scholarship Winner Aisha Siebert “My interest in Epidemiology stems from an upbringing in rural Botswana and Senegal. Between 1982 and 1992 my father conducted agricultural research funded by USAID through land grant universities, placing our family in the international aid community for the first half of my life. During my …
2nd Quarter, 2005 Medical Professions Scholarship Winner Clark Anderson He is married, with two daughters and lives in Peoria, IL. He has served in the Army and Army Reserve for 22 years and has served 18 months in Kuwait and Iraq (February 2003 – July 2004) as a medic. A Portion of Clark’s Winning Essay: …
