Tiffany Wang (2013) discusses her experience in the Tufts Internship Profile Book
What do you enjoy most about your internship? They really want to make sure the scholars understand what it means to be on track for a PhD.
Beena Biju (2013) featured by Hofstra University
Biochem Student Wins National Scholarship for Scientific Research – “Biju worked in the lab of Siavash Kurdistani, MD, associate professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Kurdistani studies the relationship between human genome compaction and diseases such as cancer.”
Timothy Chai (2014) awarded Goldwater Scholarship
Timothy Chai receives 2014 Barry Goldwater Scholarship. Congratulations!
Hunter Bennett (2012) receives College of Engineering Dean’s Medal
Hunter Bennett, University of Washington Bioengineering senior and UCLA Amgen Scholars alumni (2012), was awarded the UW College of Engineering Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence for 2014. The Dean’s Medal is awarded to two College of Engineering graduating seniors students annually. He was also profiled by UW Today.
Erik Reinertsen (2011) is a founding organizer for Medicine 2.0 at Emory University
Erik played an instrumental role in establishing Medicine 2.0. The conference is Emory University’s first multidisciplinary conference on medical technology innovation. Engineering students from Georgia Tech brainstormed, networked, and envisioned the future of medicine with clinical faculty, fellows, residents, and medical students from Emory University. Over 100 attendees from two institutions and seven departments participated. Our team organized event logistics, invited speakers, and gathered participant feedback.
Jonathan Diep (2011) named Stanford Graduate Fellows in Science and Engineering
Jonathan was awarded the Stanford Graduate Fellows in Science and Engineering in 2013. He also earned the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and was awarded a Barry Goldwater Scholarship (2012). Jonathan is pursuing a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University.
2011 Amgen Scholar Emily Brown discusses her gap year experience
Upon graduation from MIT in 2013 Emily Brown took a gap year to do clinical work in a private dermatology practice.
2007 Amgen Scholar Lauren Sanchez earned the Dr. Sherman Mellinkoff Award for her volunteer
Courtesy UCLA Health Systen
Sophia Yang (2007) featured in video on world’s lightest material
Watch Sophia in a video from HRL Laboratories.
2007 Amgen Scholar Ni (Jenny) Feng has her research highlighted in Endocrine News.
See the article entitled “Testosterone Could Fuel Athletic Avian Displays” on Page 11!
Hope Shaffer Mirendil (2007 cohort) wins the Fletcher Jones Fellowship at Scripps
Shaffer was awarded the 2008 Fletcher Jones Fellowship to support her research in Immunology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA.
David Wang (2010) was awarded the Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship for 20
The prestigious Phi Kappa Phi graduate fellowship is awarded to only 57 students nationwide. David Wang is pursuing a Ph.D. through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program.