Student Recognition

Gary L. Pittenger, PhD, and David E. Scott, PhD, were faculty members of Pathology and Anatomy who devoted their professional lives in the anatomical sciences.  In their memory, the Gary L. Pittenger and David E. Scott Award for Excellence in the Anatomical Science is presented to a graduating medical student to recognize their academic excellence in the anatomical sciences.

Recipients

• Alexis S. Elliott, Inaugural Recipient, Class of 2014
• Daniel J. Young,  Class of 2015
• Jigar Patel, Class of 2016
• Yu C. Hung, Class of 2017
• Peter M. Van Steyn, Jr., Class of 2017
• Taylor E. Crist, Class of 2018
• Katrina Marcinkowski, Class of 2019
• Cody Wayne McIlvain & Colin Rowell, Class of 2020

The top six students in each Pathology class are invited to apply for the Faulconer Award annually. This award is given for excellence in the field of academic pathology. The winner is announced at the time of graduation.

The application process requires each student to report to the Pathology and Anatomy office, where they are given one mandatory discussion topic and a list of five others, from which they choose a second topic. Without the use of any reference materials, candidates are given 15 minutes to prepare 10-minute discussions on each topic. Each topic is discussed extemporaneously before a small faculty panel, evaluating content and organization. After all students have given their presentations, a winner is chosen by the faculty panel and the name is sealed for two years until the time of graduation arrives.

Recipients

• Rebecca Caperton and Joseph Lee (a tie), Class of 1998
• Rachel-Louis Beddard, Class of 1999
• Andrew Williams, Class of 2000
• Jessie Irwin, Class of 2001
• Timothy Bradford, Class of 2002
• George Dahl, Class of 2003
• Deborah Sevilla, Class of 2004
• Jennifer Moti, Class of 2005
• Lee Jennings and Geoffrey Neuner (a tie), Class of 2006
• Kelly Graham, Class of 2007
• Jessica Salzman, Class of 2008
• Deboki Chaudhuri, Class of 2009
• Adam Ligler, Class of 2010
• William Pullen, Class of 2011
• Nicholas Rister, Class of 2012
• Ali Bukhari, Class of 2013
• Andrew Holcomb, Class of 2014
• Austin Baraki and Jeremy Hines (a tie), Class of 2015
• Sohaib Malik, Class of 2016
• Daniel A. McBride, Class of 2017
• Ashley S. Hafer, Class of 2018
• Gordana Rasic, Class of 2019
• Blair K. Dodson, Class of 2020

This award recognizes students with the highest scholastic standards and professional attributes in neuroscience.

Recipients

• Amy R. Rogers, Class of 2017
• Erica K. Gotow, Class of 2018
• Rachel A. Glad, Class of 2019
• James Sherwood Coxe IV, Class of 2020

This award recognizes students with the highest scholastic standards and professional attributes in the Pathologists' Assistant program.

Recipients

• Carlee Nicole Demeter, Class of 2018
• Keisha Archelle Earl, Class of 2018
• Kathleen Nelsen, Class of 2019
• Lauren Yoho, Class of 2020