Fall 2020 Award Recipients
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ABOVE AND BEYOND AWARDElaine TasakElaine is a 4th-year majoring in Neuroscience and a 2nd-year at UW. In the future, she is hoping to attend medical school and become a physician. She loves to read, draw, listen to music, and, as of late, play guitar in her free time! She is being recognized for demonstrating effort that was above and beyond mentor responsibilities. |
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SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE AWARDRandi HaddenRandi is a junior at UW pursuing a Physiology major with a Spanish minor. She is passionate about medicine and hopes to one day become a pediatrician. She enjoys working out and sipping on a coffee or two in her free time! She is being recognized for offering extraordinary support, time, and energy to assist others with no expectation of recognition. |
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LEADING BY EXAMPLE AWARDMickey Ruiz, Mentorship ChairMickey is currently a third year student intending to double major in Physiology and Psychology. She is currently conducting research in the Ed Kelly Lab in the Department of Pharmaceutics where she focuses on preclinical models of metabolism in microphysiologic systems on the kidney (kidneys on a chip) to model human disease and predictive toxicity testing of drugs and xenobiotics. She is studying as a pre-grad student, hoping to be a part of UW’s Department of Pharmacokinetic program. She enjoys singing, playing the ukulele, drawing, and hanging out with her bunnies and hamster! She is being recognized for demonstrating extraordinary leadership skills. |
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INSPIRATION AWARDOwen TamOwen is being recognized for inspiring others to do their best, and serving as a role model. |
Spring 2019 Award Recipients
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ABOVE AND BEYOND AWARDAlex ZhuHi! I'm Alex (he/him/his). I graduated in 2019 studying Neuroscience and Comparative History of Ideas. Additionally, I'm interested in creative writing, organizing meaningful events, and discussing interesting questions. I'm very grateful for the opportunity I had to develop such wonderful relationships with such great mentees! |
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OUTSTANDING LEARNING AWARDDante FisherDante Fisher is taking classes at the UW as a non-matriculated student, and is intending to matriculate to the UW for a post-baccalaureate degree in Neuroscience. Dante is interested generally in the understanding the physical systems underlying our subjective experience, and is particularly curious about what we can learn about their properties from examining dysfunction caused by disease or drug interactions. When he isn't in class, Dante likes to spend his time meditating, exercising, singing, and reading. |