Hu named 2022 McGovern teaching award winner

GSBS student have selected Jian Hu, PhD, as the recipient of the 2022 John P. McGovern Award for Outstanding Teaching. The award recognizes excellence in teaching based on the following criteria: knowledge of the subject, interest in and enthusiasm for teaching, interest in and understanding of students, responsiveness to student questions and encouragement of independent thinking, and accessibility to students. This is the second time Hu has received this distinction. 

Graduate School welcomes Tanieka Young to diversity & student affairs

Tanieka Young, MBA, MSHRD, joined the diversity and student affairs office at the GSBS on May 2. In her new position, she will oversee all aspects of recruitment, outreach, and retention. Young will also manage diversity programming including The Academy at GSBS, a program that focuses on community building and the success of graduate students from historically underrepresented backgrounds.

GSBS PhD student Mabel Perez-Oquendo receives NIH/NCI F31-Diversity fellowship

Student Mabel Perez-Oquendo received an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Parent F31-Diversity) for her work with ZEB1’s molecular basis and its ability to induce lung cancer metastasis along with possible treatment. Perez-Oquendo is affiliated with the PhD Genetics and Epigenetics Program, and her advisor is Don Gibbons, MD, PhD.