Student Awards and Fellowships

All first, second and third year medical students are eligible to apply for the Helen H. Glaser Student Essay Award or the Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship. Application materials may be submitted to the attention of Katrina McGill, University of Minnesota Medical School, Office of Student Affairs, MMC 293 Mayo, B614 Mayo, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. For application consideration, students must submit their materials by December 31st.

The Helen H. Glaser Student Essay Awards

Awarded annually since 1983, the Student Essay Award offers prizes for essays on non-technical medical topics such as medical education, medical ethics, the history of medicine, and reflections on illness, science, and culture. As well as receiving cash awards, the winners' essays and selected other essays of special interest are published in The Pharos, the ΑΩΑ quarterly journal published since 1938. The Student Essay Award was renamed in 1999 to honor Dr. Helen H. Glaser, long-time associate and managing editor of The Pharos, who died in October of that year. This essay contest is available for any medical student, and not just inducted members of the ΑΩΑ Chapter at the University of Minnesota Medical School. See detailed instructions for submitting an ΑΩΑ Student Essay.

Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowships

To promote basic or clinical research in medical fields, social science, or health services, the National ΑΩΑ awards up to fifty $4,000 fellowships each year to medical students at schools with ΑΩΑ chapters. An additional $500 is available to the faculty mentor of each fellowship recipient to purchase supplies and equipment. The National ΑΩΑ's goal is to fund a student research fellowship at each chapter every year. Student research fellowships are available for any first, second and third year medical student at the University of Minnesota, except those students enrolled in the M.D.-Ph.D. Program. All students with an interest in research, or those who are actively working in a research setting are encouraged to apply. See instructions on how to apply for an ΑΩΑ Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship.

 

2007	Student:	Andrew Day, MS1
	Faculty Mentor:	Brian G. Van Ness, Ph.D., Professor and Head, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Development
	Research:	"Drug Therapy on a Multiple Myeloma Mouse Model ”
2006	Student:	Neil Shah, MS3
	Faculty Mentor:	Maria Hordinski, M.D., Professor and Head, Department of Dermatology
	Research:	"Characterization of Cutaneous Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease”
2005	Student:	Warren Manyara, MS1
	Faculty Mentor:	Robert Hebbel, M.D., Director of Vascular Biology Center
	Research:	"Investigation of Genetic Basis for Predisposition to Strokes in Sickle Cell Disease by Analyzing EGR-1 and NFkB Expression Levels in Endothelial Cells”
2005	Student:	Sarah Nakib, MS2
	Faculty Mentors:	Maria Hordinsky, M.D., Professor and Head, Department of Dermatology Marna Ericson, Ph.D., Department of Dermatology
	Research:	"Quantitation of Perifollicular and Epidermal Nerve Fibers in the Immunostained C57BL/6J Mouse Dorsal Skin Biopsy Specimens following Anagen Hair Induction by Neuroimmunophilin Ligands FK506, GPI 1046, and GPI 1511”
2004	Student:	Robert Huebert, MS2
	Faculty Mentors:	Leslie Miller, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Director of Cardiovascular Division Jennifer Hall, Ph.D., Director of Cardiovascular Genomics
	Research:	“The Role of Sprouty 1 as a Novel Regulator of Myocardial Remodeling in Human Heart Failure”
2003	Student:	Lydia Sahara, MS3
	Faculty Mentor:	Maria Hordinsky, M.D., Professor and Head, Department of Dermatology
	Research:	“Neurotrophic Effects of Immuniophilin Ligans on Human Hair Follicles Grafted onto Severe Combined Immunodificient (SCID) Mice”
2002	Student:	Steven Chow, MS2
	Faculty Mentor:	Maria Hordinsky, M.D., Professor and Head, Department of Dermatology
	Research:	“Physical Effects of Beard Hair Fibers caused by Eflornithine Hydrochloride BMS-203522 13.9% Cream in African Americans with Pseudofoliculitis Barbae”