2008 Student Travel Award and Poster Award Recipients
Over the last few years the APHA Environment Section has received an increasing number of applicants for the Student Travel Award and this year was no exception. From the many qualified applicants we were able to award a select number of students to receive registration and/or a travel stipend to attend the meeting in San Diego. The following is a list of the 2008 Travel Awardees:
Jennifer Davis, University of South Carolina
Erica Finsness, University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community
Medicine, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Melissa Greer, George Washington University School of Public Health
Micah Hahn, Rollins School of Public Health, Emorty University
Rachel Kauffman, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Brent Kim. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Danny Kwon, Loma Linda University School of Public Health
Linda Lindquist, University of Maryland, Graduate School of Nursing
Anna M. Urban, University of Minnesota
Ni Zhao, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The San Diego meeting student posters were exceptional this year, with a wide range of environmental health research topics.The following are the Student Poster Awardees for 2008:
First Place: Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá, MS, PhD Candidate, Center for
Children's Environmental Health Research, School of Public Health,
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Second Place: Christopher K. Uejio, MA, Nelson Institute for
Environmental Studies, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
(Third place – Two Awards)
Third Place: Sarah Olson, BS BA , Department of Population Health
and the Nelson Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Third Place: Micah Hahn, Global Environmental Health Rollins School of
Public Health, Emory University
We would like thank all the sponsors who made these recognitions possible:
NIEHS
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Centers for Disease Control
The Environment Section looks forward to working with the student awardees joining the section committees and invites everyone to join the APHA Environment Section Facebook Group. Look for the Travel Award application announcement in the spring of 2009.