Title: APHA Environment Section “Student Corner”
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Section/SPIG: Environment
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2004 Annual Meeting Student Poster Award Winners
The winners of the 2004 APHA Environmental Section Student Poster Awards were:
1st Place:
Melissa Slotnick
University of Michigan, School of Public Health,
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
2nd Place:
Mary Elizabeth O'Neil
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
3rd Place: Brettania Walker
The George Washington University, School of Public Health
2004 Annual Meeting Student Travel Scholarship Winners
Student Scholarships to cover or defray the cost of travel and/or registration for the 2004 APHA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., were awarded to the following individuals
(listed alphabetically, not by award amount):
Kathryn Alcantar
Audrey DeNazelle
Kelly Ho
Marcus Rountree
Nakia Clemmons
Ayesha Bashir
Helena Chapman
Jessica Nelson
Deirdra Forte
Lauran Zajac
Dana Thomas
Paula Stigler
Kimberley McGee
Vamsi Vasireddy
Manuel Jaramillo
Andrea Wismann
Sabre Watkins
Kai Johnson
Dawn Braswell
Yolanda Sanchez
Danielle Spurlock
Jazzmin Turner
"Reprint" of thank-you note
Our Section Chair received the following gracious thank-you note from one of the student travel/registration scholarship recipients. We decided to share it with everyone.
Editors note: we reproduced this from the originally mailed letter, so any bold type was originated by Chapman for emphasis.)
“I would like to send my appreciation for your financial support on the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual conference in November 2004. Your support, together with the Environment Section’s compassion and support for graduate students, makes my trip more affordable.
It is truly an honor to accept the 2004 APHA Environment Section Student Scholarship as a fellow graduate student and researcher with interests in environmental health factors and epidemiology. I am extremely excited that the conference’s theme is ‘Public Health and the Environment’ so that the Environment Section may shine this year!
I look forward to presenting my research with other distinguished students and researchers and gaining insight about other public health disciplines. Public health is such a multidisciplinary field that we must learn to collaboratively work together so that we may reach optimal results. I am also excited to further network, which is an essential skill in the sustainability of research projects, and often, graduate careers.
I am honored to have participated in such a grand scholarship competition and to accept this scholarship award. It was and is truly an honor to be among like-minded researchers! As a collective group, we should applaud all students and researchers for our dedicated and scientific efforts! Kudos to all Section organizers, presenters and attendees!
Thank you for your time and interest in graduate students as individual scientists. I look forward to an outstanding conference and opportunity to network in November!
Sincerely yours,
Helena Chapman, BS; Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida”
Solicitation for Future “Student Corner” contributions
We have initiated the “Student Corner” portion of our seasonal newsletter for use by and the benefit of our student members. We encourage student members to send text by the appropriate deadlines for upcoming issues of the APHA Environment Section e-newsletter (see above) to <dgshendell@earthlink.net> and <rebecca_head@monroemi.org>. We encourage short update reports from our section’s Student Involvement Committee and news pertaining to the APHA Student Assembly (former Public Health Student Caucus) that is of interest to our section membership. (Editor Note: The Student Involvement Committee Chair is Sacoby Wilson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, <smwilson@email.unc.edu>.)