CCNY鈥檚 2017 Salk Scholars, clockwise from the top: Marisol Cort茅s, Anika Nabila, Violeta Contreras Ramirez and Christopher Reid.
For the second year running, T九色视频 is the recipient of four of the eight Jonas E. Salk Scholarships awarded by The City University of New York this year. The scholarships recognize exceptional students who plan careers in medicine and the biological sciences.
As Salk Scholars, Marisol Cort茅s, Anika Nabila, Christopher Reid and Violeta Contreras Ramirez will each receive a stipend of $8,000 to be appropriated over three or four years of medical studies.
Cort茅s, who is Mexican-born, is graduating with a BS in biochemistry. The Mount Vernon resident will attend the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for a PhD in biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology.
Nabila will receive a BS in biology from the Macaulay Honors College at CCNY. From Elmhurst, Queens, she will attend the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and pursue a PhD in neuroscience.
Reid is headed to Harvard Medical School after earning his BS in biology this June. The Yonkers resident will study neuroscience.
Violeta Contreras Ramirez, also a Mexican immigrant, was CCNY鈥檚 Class of 2015 Valedictorian. She graduated from the college鈥檚 with a double major in and .
She will attend Yale School of Medicine and is interested in neurology and other neuroscience-related fields.
The Salk Scholarship is named for Dr. Jonas Salk, a 1934 graduate of City College, who developed the first polio vaccine in 1955. Dr. Salk turned down a tickertape parade in honor of his discovery, and asked that the money be used for scholarships instead. New York City provided initial funding for the scholarships that year.
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