Scholarships and Awards
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Past Awards:
1993 - Kirk Smith
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One of the world's largest sources of funding exclusively for graduate women, the AAUW Educational Foundation supports women breaking through educational and economic barriers as aspiring scholars around the globe, teachers and activists in local communities, women at critical stages of their careers, and those pursuing professions where women are underrepresented.
1990 - Cheryl Ellis Vaiani
Past Awards:
This scholarship is awarded to students enrolled in a degree-seeking GSBS program with excellent academic achievement and demonstrated financial need. Four (4) awards of $4000 will be given.
1997 - Jing-Bao Nie
2012 - Alina Bennett
2012 - Julie Kutac
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This scholarship recognizes an outstanding student enrolled in the GSBS. The award is $1000.
1999 - Jing-Bao Nie
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Past Awards:
1993 - Mary White (Essay on the Humanities and Medicine)
1996 - Jing-Bao Nie
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The Chauncey Leake Dissertation Day was inaugurated by The Institute for the Medical Humanities in 1992. Handsome antique coins are provided by Chauncey Leake and then presented to IMH graduates to provide a tangible token of their achievements.
Past Awards:
2000 - Deborah Cummins
2006 - Joal Hill
2006 - Stacey Tovino
This endowment was created in 1999 by Faith Lagay, an alumna of the Institute of the Medical Humanities. Further contributions from alumni and friends made it possible to present this award for the first time in 2005. The award is presented to an outstanding student enrolled in the Medical Humanities graduate program pays tribute to former faculty member Chester Burns, M.D., Ph.D. Special preference will be given to applicants whose major interests are in the traditional humanities disciplines (including history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, and visual studies). The award is a plaque and a check for $4000.
Past awards:
2005 - David Kozishek (Inaugural Recipient)
2006 - Angela Scott
2007 - Nobue Urushihara Urvil
2008 - Krisann E. Muskievicz
2009 - Margaret P. Wardlaw
2010 - Andrew Childress
2011 - Alina Bennett
2012 - Rimma Osipov
This award is presented to a full-time student in the Institute for the Medical Humanities who has demonstrated academic excellence and who has displayed self-knowledge and a commitment to moral and humanistic teaching, health care, and/or styles of institutional leadership. Special consideration will be given to applicants who have no other scholarship or stipend support, who are interested in humanistic dimensions of mental health, and who aspire to an academic career in health professions education. The selection of the award recipient will be made by an IMH committee. The award is a plaque and a check for $2000.
Past Awards:
2006 - John Caskey Inaugural Recipient
2007 - John Ernest (Ernie) Aguilar
2008 - Margaret P. Wardlaw
2009 - Nobue Urushihara Urvil
2010 - Alina Bennett
2011 - Rimma Osipov
2012 - Peggy Determeyer
This award recognizes a graduate faculty member for educational excellence in the Medical Humanities Graduate Program.
2005 - Anne Hudson Jones, Ph.D.
2006 - Anne Hudson Jones, Ph.D.
2007 - Ronald A. Carson, Ph.D.
2008 - No award given due to Hurricane Ike
2009 - No award given due to Hurricane Ike recovery
2010 - Laura Hermer, J.D., LL.M.
2011 - Anne Hudson Jones, Ph.D.
2012 - Mark Clark, Ph.D.
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GSBS Associates Christina Fleischmann Travel Awards
These awards are to supplement a Ph.D. candidate’s travel to present their work at national and international meetings. Two awards of $500 are available.
Past Awards:
2012 - Sheena Eagan Chamberlin
The Harry H. Ransom Fellowship in the Institute for the Medical Humanities was established in 1993 to provide an award for a Dissertation Fellow in the Medical Humanities. The award is $2000.
Past Awards:
1998 - Deborah Cummins
2004 - Michael Bevins
2005 - Amy McGuire
2006 - Stacey Tovino
2007 - John Caskey
2010 - Daniel Goldberg
2011 - Nobue Urushihara Urvil
2012 - Margaret Wardlaw
2013 - Andrew Childress
2013 - Merle Lenihan
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This scholarship is available for a student who is enrolled as a regular, full-time Ph.D. degree-seeking student based on academic qualifications including GRE scores, TOEFL or IELTS scores (where required), grade point average, advanced degrees, research experience, and motivation and dedication to a career in biomedical research. The award is $1000.
Past Awards:
1990 - Patricia Jakobi
1997 - Kayhan Parsi
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This award recognizes a student who has made a significant contribution toward the advancement of knowledge in the area of behavioral sciences or the humanities. The nominee should be a regularly enrolled graduate student at UTMB and should have good grades in formal course work. The award is a plaque and check for $500.
PAST AWARDS
2008 - Daniel Goldberg
2010 - Margaret Wardlaw
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This scholarship is presented to a student based on merit and high academic standards. This award is $1,000.
Past Awards:
2008 - Nobue Urushihara Urvil
2010 - Nobue Urushihara Urvil
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2000 - Michael Bevins
The endowed scholarship for the Institute for the Medical Humanities is given annually at the beginning of each academic year to students pursuing a degree in the Medical Humanities who has demonstrated financial need and/or distinguished academic achievement. Currently, the award is $1000.
Past Awards:
1993 - Anne Marie Kearney Giessel
1994 - Kristi Schrode
1995 - Faith McLellan
1996 - Jing Bao Nie
2001 - Amy McGuire
2003 - Amy McGuire
2004 - John Caskey
2005 - Daniel Bustillos
2006 - Nobue Urushihara Urvil
2007 - Krisann Muskievicz
2008 - Jiin-yu Chen
2009 - Sheena Eagan
2010 - Sheena Eagan
2011 - Alina Bennett
2012 - Julie Kutac
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The primary purpose of the NSRF is to provide a national scientific assembly, planned and managed by students for presentation of research by medical students, interns and residents, and graduate students in the health sciences. The Forum recognized excellence in research by means of awards, based upon the judgment of a panel of scientists selected from the UTMB faculty and campuses across the United States.
The NSRF originated in 1960 at UTMB, and the first Forum had participants from Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee. This year approximately 100 students from 38 medical schools, graduate schools, and hospitals throughout the United States, Canada, and India presented their work.
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Past Awards:
1994 - Kirk Smith (Chauncey Leake History of Medicine Prize for best original paper in the History of Medicine entitled "Galen's Defense of Phlebotomy.")
1996 - Jing-Bao Nie (Chauncey Leake History of Medicine Prize for best original paper in the History of Medicine.)
2006 - Marissa Gostanian (Medical Humanities Award. The award was $200 and a plaque. Marissa's presentation was titled “Physician Heal Thyself: Desire and Impairment in Abraham Verghese's The Tennis Partner.” In the Public Health Forum, Marissa spoke along with students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Washington, the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the Brown Medical School, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine.)
2008 - Nobue Urushihara Urvil received the National Student Research Forum (NSRF) Medical Humanities Award at the 49th Annual National Student Research Forum, which was held on April 24-25, 2008 at UTMB. The award is $200 and a plaque. Nobue's presentation was titled “Quest of Light: Narratives of Retardation by Oe Kenzaburo.” Her paper was a shorter version of the paper she presented at the March 2008 IMH Student Colloquium.
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These scholarships recognize an accepted degree seeking graduate student who has an expressed interest in the area of gerontology and health promotion, and who has demonstrated outstanding professional and personal leadership among his/her peers. Two awards of $1300 each.
Past Awards:
2004 - Jason Morrow
2007 - Julie Kutac
2008 - Julie Kutac
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This scholarship recognizes an outstanding student enrolled in the GSBS. The award is $1,000.
Past Awards
2007 - Daniel Bustillos
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Shirley and Albert E. Sanders, MD Presidential Scholarship Fund
This scholarship fund was created for the benefit of the UTMB School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences by Shirley and Albert Sanders. Funds distributed from the endowment shall be used to award scholarships each year for outstanding students in the School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, alternately.
Past Awards
2011 - Jiin-Yu Chen and Krisann Muskievicz
The Sjoerd Stuenebrink Scholarship Endowment was established in 1999, through the estate of Sjoerd Steunebrink. Dr. Steunebrink immigrated to the United States from Holland in 1956. He completed his internship and residency in West Virginia, practiced anesthesia in Houston for 23 years. He believed strongly in pursuing his dream and wanted to help others pursue their dream as well.
Past Awards:
2011 - Julie Kutac
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The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is the only all-discipline honor society at UTMB. This chapter is the first and only one at an academic health sciences center. Its mission is to encourage, recognize, and promote superior scholarship.
The standards for election to Phi Kappa Phi are higher than those of most other honorary societies. The Society elects to membership undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, professional staff, and alumni. Students are selected from the upper 10 percent of the senior class, the upper 7.5 percent of juniors who have completed at least 72 hours or the equivalent, and the upper 10 percent of graduate and professional students.
Graduate students are congratulated on achieving this high level of excellence in the medical humanities academic program.
Past Awards:
2005 - Dan Bustillos
2005 - John Caskey
2005 - Joal Hill
2005 - David Kozishek
2005 - Merle Lenihan
2005 - Alison Rutledge
2005 - Angela Scott
2005 - Robin Solomon
2005 - Stacey Tovino
2006 - Julie Kutac
2006 - Krisann Muskievicz
2007 - Daniel Goldberg
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The John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine Student Scholarship (SOM) was established in 2003 by an anonymous contributor, this scholarship provides an award for a student who has demonstrated a commitment to humanistic medicine and compassionate patient care. The recipient is selected by members of the John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine.
These awards provide monetary support for the education of medical students whose performance and conduct exemplify those ideals of medical practice as promulgated by Sir William Osler. The fundamental principles of Oslerian medicine include: (1.) Compassionate, personalized medical care that emphasizes the doctor/patient relationship; (2.) Incorporation of a sound scientific basis for optimal patient care; and (3.) Professional behavior at all times.
Each award will be for $10,000 per year and will continue until the expected date of graduation. In 2006, awards will be presented to four students: two rising sophomores and two to those entering the second, third, or fourth years that are in good standing in the UTMB School of Medicine (SOM).
Past Awards:
2004 - S. Ryan Gregory (Inaugural Award)
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2000 - Michael Bevins (Minnie & Ward Savage Student Fellowship)
2003 - Michael Bevins ( Carl J. Herzog Student Fellowship)
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Each year, nominees are selected for Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. Criteria considered are: Scholastic ability, participation and leadership in academic and extracurricular activities, citizenship and services to the school, and potential for future achievement.
Past Awards:
1993-1994 - Kirk Smith
1994-1995 - Martha Holstein
1994-1995 - Faith Lagay
1999-2000 - Michael Bevins
1999-2000 - Joal Hill
2000-2001 - S. Ryan Gregory
2002-2003 - Michael Bevins
2003-2004 - Jason Morrow
2004-2005 - John Caskey
2004-2005 - David Kozishek
2004-2005 - Angela Scott
2004-2005 - Robin Solomon
2005-2006 - Ernie Aguilar
2005-2006 - Daniel Bustillos
2005-2006 - Merle Lenihan
2005-2006 - Bernadette McKinney
2006-2007 - Julie Kutac
2006-2007 - Krisann Muskievicz
2006-2007 - Susan Night
2007-2008 - Jiin-Yu Chen
2007-2008 - Margaret Wardlaw
2008-2009 - John Paul (Paulie) Gaido
This scholarship is awarded to a degree-seeking graduate student pursuing a career in the Medical Humanities. The student must demonstrate distinguished academic achievement. The award is $1,000.
Past Awards:
1997 - Joal M. Hill
1998 - Michael B. Bevins
1999 - Toni Schossler
2000 - Craig Klugman
2001 - Jason D. Morrow
2002 - Jason D. Morrow
2003 - Michael B. Bevins
2004 - Amy McGuire
2005 - John Caskey
2006 - Julie Kutac
2007 - John Ernest (Ernie) Aguilar
2008 - Susan Night
2009 - Jiin-Yu Chen
2010 - Jiin-Yu Chen
2011 - Andrew Childress
2012 - Nicole Piemonte
A partial stipend plus a travel award is available to an outstanding student showing superior accomplishments and promise for achieving excellent dissertation research. The student must be a U.S. citizen and may receive this scholarship only once. The award is $25,000 (stipend + fringe) plus a $1000 travel award.
Past Awards:
1994 - Martha Holstein
2000 - Craig Klugman 2008 - Jiin-yu Chen (Stipend + fringe) 2008 - Daniel Goldberg (Travel Award)
2012 - Nicole Piemonte