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Awards and recognition for FAZD Center DHS scholars and fellows
A total of 147 students and post-doctoral fellows have participated in FAZD Center research and education programs. These include 21 post doctoral fellows, 61 doctoral students, 39 master’s students, 8 veterinary medicine students and 18 undergraduates.
The population reflects students supported by the Center as well as those supported by leveraging funds on research directly related to the Center’s agenda. Many of these students have earned honors, recognition and internships. Among them:
- Noried M. DeJesus-Velazquez,
a FAZD Center student participating in the 2007 DHS Minority Serving
Institutions Summer Research Team Program, was chosen to make a
presentation to S&T Under Secretary Jay M. Cohen. She also received
honors for a poster presentation at the 2007 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students.
- Texas A&M University graduate student Vinayak Brahmakshatriya won first place in the student poster contest held during the first DHS University Network Summit on Research and Education. He was among seven FAZD Center students who presented posters. Two other Texas A&M graduate students received internships in the homeland security sector.
- Amy Pohl interned at NORTHCOM in Colorado Springs to study education and research topics that are important to the Surgeon General and NORTHCOM.
- Lindsay Holmstrom interned with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California where she participated in the development of a model for animal disease impact assessment.
- Jennie Finks worked with the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in Mexico and Central America.
- Melinda Hergert designed a public health program on rabies while working in South Africa. Amy Delgado worked with Defra in the United Kingdom.
- Heather Engleking interned with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and Agricultural Research Service.