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HIGHLights By Kate O’Neill 16 Robert Wood Johnson ■ MEDICINE E D U C A T I O N Dean’s Scholars: Class of 2014 Peter S. Amenta, MD, PhD, dean, initiated the Dean’s Scholars Program in 2006. The following outstanding incoming students in the Class of 2014 were named Dean’s Scholars, each earning a four-year scholarship to UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. ■ Erin Honcharuk earned a bachelor of science degree in psychology with honors at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research experience included a summer fellowship in a pilot study of glucose monitoring in adolescents with type 1 diabetes. As an undergraduate, Erin volunteered on the transplant floor at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. ■ Christopher Jakubowski majored in molecular biology and biochemistry and graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He was co-author of two submitted manuscripts on RNA sequencing and post-transcriptional molecular biology. Chris participated in the 2008 and 2009 research symposiums at Rutgers and was a Columbia University Amgen Scholars Research Fellow. ■ Kumaol Mengesha earned a bachelor’s degree in biology at Rutgers. She participated in the Rutgers-RWJMS Access-Med Program and studied DNA transcription as a research assistant in the Biomedical Careers Program. Kumaol served as a tutor in biology and genetics for the Rutgers Office of Diversity and Academic Success and volunteered at University Hospital in Newark. ■ Michelle Powell graduated magna cum laude from the Rutgers honors program, majoring in biological science and minoring in African studies. As an Access-Med participant, she shadowed a RWJMS cardiologist in her junior year. While she was a Rutgers undergraduate, Michelle served as a volunteer tutor at New Brunswick High School and was the tutoring program’s coordinator in her senior year. ■ Aleksey Shapoval earned a bachelor’s degree in biology at Emory University. He was co-author of an article on mtDNA biogenesis and cardiac contractility that was published in Cardiovascular Toxicology and served as a research laboratory assistant in the Pathology Department at Emory Medical School. Aleksey volunteered at the Children’s Hospital of Atlanta. Peter S. Amenta, MD, PhD, dean (center), with the Class of 2014 Dean’s Scholars (left to right): Jeffrey Williams, Erin Honcharuk, Aleksey Shapoval, Kumaol Mengesha, Tarika Thareja, Michelle Powell, and Christopher Jakubowski. ■ Tarika Thareja won the James McIlwain Award for Distinction in Neuroscience at Brown University, where she majored in neuroscience. Tarika served as a research assistant at the Child Stress Laboratory within Warren Alpert Medical School and at The Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. ■ Jeffrey Williams earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Bucknell University, where he did research in evolutionary ecology as a Biology Presidential Fellow. Under a National Science Foundation grant, Jeff researched chemical ecology in Cádiz, Spain. During high school, he served as an emergency medical technician, and he was a student emergency response volunteer at Bucknell. STEVE HOCKSTEIN
I T T A K E S A Village Baby T O H A V E A B Y K A T E O ’ N E I L L Most babies are conceived, develop, and are born without a problem: five out of six pregnancies and births go forward with little assistance — aside from a capable pair of hands easing the newborn into the world. These statistics are reassuring, until you realize that approximately 4.5 million babies were born in the United States in 2009. That means about 750,000 new arrivals needed extra help somewhere along the way. Robert Wood Johnson ■ MEDICINE 17
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