Grants, Awards and Honors
Awards
We just had our fourth genetic counseling student win a nationally competitive internship or scholarship in the past three weeks. Awardees include:
Thea Owens (first year GC student) - awarded a scholarship to attend Marshfield Clinic's Practical Genetics for Health Care Providers Conference.
Courtney Doughty (first year GC student) - awarded $831 from the NSGC Cancer Special Interest Group to conduct Courtney's master's thesis related to evaluating result disclosure methods in BRCA genetic testing.
Jessica Hoffman (first year GC student) - three week fully funded internship at the Mayo Clinic to gain experiences in molecular genetics, cytogenetics, biochemical genetics, and maternal serum screening.
Kristen Lipscomb Sund (joint GC/MDB student) - Fully funded one week GC internship at Myriad Genetics in Utah. This was awarded through a joint NSGC/Myriad collaboration.
Katie Wusik, (2007 graduate), along with one other student in the College of Allied Health Sciences, was nominated and received a $2000 tuition scholarship from the College Club of Cincinnati.
Honors
Katie Wusik (2007 graduate) was the recipient of the Student Project Award 2007 from the NSGC Diversity Subcommittee to help support her thesis project entitled "CCA Measurement of Cultural Competency in a Genetic Counseling Student Population"