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New students in the Bimedical Research Traning Program and the M.D./Ph.D. Scholars programs are, front row from left, Ryan Hlady, Erin Rosenbaugh, Kate Dempsey, Shawna Woollard and Chase Turner; back row from left, Trevor Headman, Katherine Wilcox (M.D./Ph.D.), Ruth Steadman, Kelly Long and Ian Windham. Not pictured are Derek Hawkins from the BRTP program and Adrian Epstein and Jakeb Riggle of the M.D./Ph.D., program. |
The BRTP, now entering its ninth year, is a common entry program for Ph.D. study in the College of Medicine and the Cancer Research Graduate Program. The purpose of the program is to recruit highly talented graduate students from around the nation to enhance UNMC’s research mission and to provide students with the opportunity to select from a wide variety of laboratories before deciding upon their Ph.D. study laboratory and department.
Formalized in 1994, the M.D./Ph.D. Scholars Program is designed to prepare a select group of outstanding students for careers in academic medicine and research. Directors of the program are Shelley Smith, Ph.D., and Debra Romberger, M.D.
“Critical to UNMC’s research mission is having high-caliber students,” said Daniel Monaghan, Ph.D., BRTP director. “The incoming classes for both the BRTP and M.D./Ph.D. Scholars Programs continue the tradition of having solid academic credentials.”
The BRTP program now receives a large number of applications each year and has received applications from more than one hundred different U.S. schools in 37 states.
With the addition of three new students this year, there are now 20 M.D./Ph.D. students on the UNMC campus.
Students entering the BRTP program this fall are:
- Kathryn Dempsey — University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO)
- Derek Hawkins — Rochester Institute of Technology (N.Y.)
- Trevor Hedman — Illinois State University
- Ryan Hlady — Augustana College (Ill.)
- Kelly Long — Jacksonville University (Fla.)
- Erin Rosenbaugh — UNO
- Ruth Steadman — Nebraska Wesleyan University
- Chase Turner — Fort Valley State University (Ga.)
- Ian Windham — University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)
- Shawna Woollard — Capital University (Ohio)
Students entering the M.D./Ph.D. Scholars Program this fall are:
- Adrian Epstein — Saint Louis University and Washington University (Mo.)
- Jakeb Riggle — UNL
- Katherine Wilcox — Doane College (Neb.)