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adia St. Thomas, a senior biochem- for the award wrote, make her well-suited for istry major at Maryville College from such graduate work: “She isn’t satisfied with Pembroke Pines, was named the just learning facts or answering the ‘what’-type recipient of the prestigious LeQuire Award questions; she enthusiastically wants to know the answers to ‘why’ behind scientific principles, for the 2021-22 academic year. Established in 1987 by descendants and observations and chemical reactions,” they wrote. friends of Maryville physician Granville Dexter A graduate of Archbishop Edward A. LeQuire and his wife, Ellen Brickey LeQuire, McCarthy High School in Southwest Ranches, the LeQuire Award includes a cash gift to help Thomas completed two Research Experiences defray the expenses of applying to medical for Undergraduates (REU) programs in Summer school and an engraved pewter julep cup. 2021, studying biochemistry and molecular St. Thomas, who will graduate in May from the biology in an environmental health and safety 203-year-old college located in East Tennessee, context in one, and evaluating data from oncology was named winner of the award by College patient outcomes under the supervision of a President Dr. Bryan F. Coker at the institution’s retired Mayo Clinic physician at the University annual Academic Awards ceremony on April 2. of Tennessee Medical Center in the other. Her The recipient of the LeQuire Award is selected research and findings during the latter REU each year from among the graduating class by have been submitted for publication, Coker the College president. Students are nominated noted in his presentation. by faculty members from the Humanities and “And keep in mind, the REUs were in addition Natural Sciences division. to work on her Maryville College-required St. Thomas plans to take a gap year after Senior Study,” Coker added. “For it, (St. Thomas) graduation to obtain work in either a research again examined the links between human lab or direct patient care, during which time she health and environmental health by studying plans to apply to medical schools. Her aptitude the presence of the pesticide imidacloprid in for research, faculty members nominating her the nectar of flowering plants growing near
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