The School of Public Health presented its 2006 Awards Dinner (and Student Poster Presentations) for graduating students and their community preceptors on Tuesday, May 16th, 2006, at the Wyndham Philadelphia at the Franklin Plaza, 17th & Race Streets, in Philadelphia. Click here for full list of awards and recipients.
Monica Kanal '06 and "Philadelphia's Immigrant Workers" poster presentation
Jessica McKee is interviewed about her presentation: "Integrating Screening for Domestic Violence into a Pediatric Medical Setting"
Dennis Andrulis (back row, far right), Director of the Center for Health Equality, with newly-inducted student members of the Hygeia Honor Society (back row, l-r): Syed Ali Rizvi, Jonathan Chiao, Andrew Tanner;
(front row, l-r) Christy Ngo, Elizabeth Martinez, Jessica McKee, Monica Kanal, Jessica Klausmeier)
Marcus Kolb, Asst. Dean of Students, presents the Award for Exemplary Community-Based Master's Project to Bianca Malcolm
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AWARDS
* = Executive MPH Graduate
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD
Presented to students who have demonstrated outstanding academic performance in all areas of the curriculum.
Jessica April McKee
Andrew Michael Tershakovec*
SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AWARD
This award is presented to a student who has made a significant contribution to the School of Public Health by serving effectively on student government, and/or making a significant contribution to the improvement of a program component or the curriculum and/or reflecting positively on the School in his or her interaction with external entities.
Jessica Marie Pincham Jones
EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNICATION AWARD
This award is presented to a student who has consistently demonstrated the ability to work with a variety of people and retained the capacity to remain constructive in all aspects of written and oral communication.
Jean Marie Wallace*
COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD
This award is presented to a student who has exhibited exemplary volunteer service in the community during his or her time in the School.
Jessica Hope Klausmeier
HYGEIA SOCIETY MEMBERS
Membership in the Hygeia Society is awarded to those students who have, by their performance in the combination of block curricula and community-based project, achieved the highest gradations in their class, reflecting each individual's commitment to excellence in the application and synthesis of public health principles as well as to the protection and improvement of population and community health.
Lisa Michelle Becker*
Catherine Marie Berjohn
Jonathan Chiao
Jennifer Siddons DiLella*
Elizabeth A. Hunt*
Monica Kanal
Jessica Hope Klausmeier
John Joseph Lawless*
Elizabeth May Martinez
Jessica April McKee
Christy Tran Bao Ngo
Rose Catherine Plummer*
Syed Ali Rizvi
Andrew David Tanner
Andrew Michael Tershakovec*
Jean Marie Wallace*
HYGEIA HONOR SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP-ALUMNI, FACULTY, FRIENDS
Membership in the Hygeia Society is awarded to those alumni, faculty and friends who have actively engaged in public health work, significantly contributed to its development and/or most exemplify and support the core values and methods of the School and the public health profession.
Dennis Gallagher
GOLDEN APPLE AWARD
The Golden Apple Award is presented upon a vote of the graduating class to a faculty member, for excellence in teaching and advising/mentoring. Presented by a student of the Class of 2006.
Executive Program:
Nancy Epstein
Full-time Program:
Wendy Voet
DEAN'S AWARD FOR MINORITY STUDENTS
Awarded by the Dean of Students in recognition of academic achievement and outstanding service and commitment to the University and Philadelphia communities.
Jessica Marie Pincham Jones