On Friday, April 25, the School of Graduate Well being Sciences hosted its annual Graduate Analysis Day and Awards Ceremony, celebrating a yr of excellent analysis and educational achievement. The occasion featured morning and afternoon platform displays, poster periods, and an awards ceremony recognizing excellence throughout the faculty.
Throughout the poster competitors, college students offered and mentioned their analysis in an open, interactive format. Within the platform competitors, contributors delivered 10-minute displays highlighting their analysis findings.
The day additionally included the presentation of the 2025 Graduate Well being Sciences Awards, honoring a school member for excellent mentorship and recognizing distinctive college students throughout the faculty’s diploma applications.
Analysis spanned a variety of disciplines, together with pharmacology, habit sciences and toxicology; molecular and translational physiology; nursing sciences; pharmaceutical sciences; biomedical engineering; most cancers and developmental biology; microbiology, immunology and biochemistry; epidemiology; speech and listening to science; and genetics, genomics, and informatics.
“The 2025 Graduate Analysis Day was a powerful success because of the summary submissions by college students from every of our applications (a report 55 submissions), the participation of our college as attendees and judges, our college students and postdoctoral students who attended, and the distinctive group by the Graduate Scholar Govt Council,” mentioned Don Thomason, PhD, dean of the School of Graduate Well being Sciences. “We had been very lucky that college students and college from our Speech and Listening to Science PhD program in Knoxville might attend and current and get to know among the college students on this facet of the state.”
The occasion was organized by Maggie Bohm, president of the Graduate Scholar Govt Council (GSEC). “We’re very proud to have put collectively an occasion that displays the extensive breadth of analysis taking place throughout our school,” Bohm mentioned. “The award winners definitely showcase that range. Graduate Analysis Day serves because the capstone occasion for any GSEC board, and it’s totally student-run. We’re grateful to the faculty for its help in letting us run with our concepts.”
The 2025 School of Graduate Well being Sciences award winners had been:
- Dean’s Award: Eddie Brown, Jr., and Margaret Bohm
- Scholar Success Award: Perry Johnson, Jr.
- Mentor Award: Tim Saltuklaroglu, PhD
- Presentation Awards:
- 1st place (tie): Matthew Grosman and John Marendes, Jr.
- 2nd place: Andrew Shaw
- 3rd place: Aijun Zhang
- Poster Awards:
- 1st place: Rachel Sinclair
- 2nd place: Eddie Brown, Jr.
- 3rd place (tie): Marjana Kahill, Emaya Moss, and Arvind Ramesh
- Excellent Scholar Awards:
- Biomedical Engineering: Bailey Bond
- Biomedical Sciences, Most cancers and Growth Biology: Micheala Meehl
- Biomedical Sciences, Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics: Flavia Villani
- Biomedical Sciences, Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry: Margaret Bohm
- Biomedical Sciences, Molecular and Translational Physiology: Bahar Meshkat
- Biomedical Sciences, Pharmacology, Dependancy Science, and Toxicology: Shiwani Thapa
- Epidemiology: Daniel Gehle
- Well being Outcomes and Coverage Analysis: Alexandria Boykins
- Nursing Science: Nicole Schumacher
- Pharmaceutical Sciences: Harrison Thorn
- Pharmacology: Lohita Basa
- Speech and Listening to Sciences: Taylor Stone
