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Undergraduate Commencement :  Saturday 8:00 a.m. McKale Center

Physiology Post Commencement

Saturday May 16, 2009  11:00 a.m. Grand Ballroom (Student Union)

Graduate Commencement:
Friday, May 15, 2009 7:30 p.m. McKale Center

Graduate Ceremony:

Thursday, May 14, 2009  7:00 p.m. Duval Auditorium

Abraham Itty, who has majors in MCB and Physiology, is a recipient of the Robert Logan Nugent Medal.

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Craig Sheedy, a University of Arizona Physiology Undergraduate has been named top student-athlete.

Ron Lynch Ph.D. Physiology, was appointed, in the past year, as Chair of the Program Committee for the American Physiological Society, and as Director of the Advanced Research Institute for Biomedical Imaging (ARIBI) at the University of Arizona.

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and MedEdPORTAL have invited Dr Zoe Cohen to help review and select physiology animations and images for the MedEdPORTAL.

Janis M. Burt, PhD was awarded the Vernon and Virginia Furrow Award for "Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching and Mentoring". She will receive the award at the annual Faculty Teaching Awards Ceremony to be held in the DuVal Auditorium on Thursday, November 13, 2008 at noon. Congratulations to
Jan Burt.

Abraham Deng Ater, who received his B.S. in Health Sciences degree with a major in Physiology, recently has been in the news for his work to build schools in the Sudan.

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Erik Henriksen, Professor of Physiology and Director of the Physiology Undergraduate Program, has been asked to serve on a new committee of the American Physiological Society (APS). The APS Physiology Pipeline Task Force was created to identify steps the Society can take to ensure the flow of students into the discipline of physiology and their continuance to relevant careers.

Dr Zoe Cohen has been selected for the Philip and Bobbie Hanft Young Investigator Award from the Sarver Heart Center.

The title of Zoe's project is "Enhancement of platelet activation and aggregation by erythrocytes: role of red cells in thrombosis"

Heddwen Brooks, Associate Professor of Physiology, has received the Young Investigator Award, Renal Section, of the American Physiological Society.

Sarah Nelson, a junior Biochemistry major in the Physiology lab of Dr. Heddwen Brooks, has been selected as a finalist for an American Physiological Society's 2008 David S. Bruce Undergraduate Research Award.

Chris Ferguson, a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Physiology, has been awarded the 2008 Yuma Friendsof AHSC Young Investigator Award. Chris is doing research in the Orthopaedic Research
Laboratory in the College of Medicine. The College of Public Health website has more information about the award.

On May 1, 2008, Dr. Erik J. Henriksen, Professor of Physiology and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the University of Arizona, will be awarded the E.K. Frey – E. Werle Commemorative Gold Medal for outstanding research contributions on the role of the kallikrein-kinin system and related subjects in health and disease, such that these research achievements have significantly influenced the development of the field.

Dr. Tim Secomb has been elected chair of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs Advisory Council (GIDPAC). Congratulations!

Dr. Ann Baldwin has been featured in UANow. View the article here.

The Fall 2007 Physiology Undergraduate Program newsletter is now online. A list of all newsletters is also available.

Dr. Andrew Fuglevand has been invited and has agreed to serve as a
member of the NIH Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Sciences Study
Section, Center for Scientific Review for the term beginning
immediately and ending June 30, 2011.

The Department of Physiology launched a new website on January 5, 2006.