Student Chosen to Participate in Honors Premedical Academy

Tonika Chantee Cheek '99 is one of 122 undergraduates from around the United States selected to participate in this year's Honors Premedical Academy at Houston's Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University. Admission to the six-week summer academy, funded in part by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is based on academic achievement and interest in a medical career. Participants divide their day between medical settings where they are paired with Baylor physicans, and Rice academic enrichment courses in the biological sciences and communications.

Harvard Athletes Named GTE Academic All-Americans

Three senior athletes who graduated in June have been named recipients of GTE Academic All-America awards for their accomplishments in the classroom and on the playing field in their respective sports. Golfer Ed Boyda was named to the Men's At-Large First Team, Dana Remus of the heavyweight crew team was selected for the Women's Second Team, and Christine Shortsleeve of the women's lacrosse team was chosen for the Women's Third Team. Earlier this year, Emily Stauffer '98 of the women's soccer team and Greg Chang '96 of the men's fencing team were also named GTE Academic All-Americans.

1997 Pew Scholars in Biomedical Sciences Named

Gokhan S. Hotamisligil, assistant professor of nutrition in the Faculty of Public Health, is among 22 of America's "most promising" biomedical researchers selected by the Pew Charitable Trusts as 1997 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences. Hotamisligil will receive an award of $200,000 to help support his research project, "Fatty Acid Trafficking, Regulation of Gene Expression and Metabolic Control." The awards, which are granted to young investigators who show outstanding promise in the basic and clinical sciences, are intended to encourage scholarly innovation in their research and to help them advance the state of knowledge in the biomedical sciences.