STUDENT AWARDS

COURTNEY MCGINNIS, 3rd year Toxicology PhD student, took home the Young Investigator Travel Award at the Society for Redox Biology and Medicine meeting. These awards are made available to students and postdocs who submitted abstracts for SfRBM 2022 to present their research.

ANNAGABRIELA FIGUEROA, PharmD student, received the 2022 AFPE Underrepresented Minority Gateway to Research Award. Annagabriela worked with her mentor, Manisha Patel, PhD, on her research “Identifying redox and metabolic targets in an in vitro model of neurol excitability.”

Second year PharmD students KYLA JANTZ, ANNAGABRIELA FIGUEROA, and PIA MORENO represented CU Pharmacy in the ACCP Clinical Research Challenge and advanced to the final round. The top 20 among 87 schools created a full research proposal about pharmacy-led services in oncology. This novel competition is targeted towards pharmacy students in their first two years of their first professional pharmacy degree program

THE CU PHARMACY RHO CHI ALPHA THETA CHAPTER won the CU Anschutz Senate Excellence Award for Outstanding Student Organization at this year’s campus awards event. Jennifer Trujillo and Sara Wettergreen, Pharm Ds, serve as advisors for this group.

HEBATULLAH ABDELGAWAD, from the International-Trained PharmD program, was awarded Outstanding Student from the Distance Degrees and Programs (DDP) Office. Each year, DDP recognizes one student from its four programs who exemplifies dedication to their studies, clinical practice and our profession.

SAMANTHA CRAWFORD, HANNAH WORK, LAUREN RUTT, ANGELA REINERT, and NICHOLAS MENDOLA, all PhD students, received Best Poster Awards during the School's Spring Research Symposium. The Symposium is an annual event that highlights graduate student research projects.

For a full list of student awards and recognitions from the 22-23 academic year, scan this QR code