Initiative for Maximizing Student Development at Brown

IMSD Trainees Receive Honors and Awards

Congratulations to our former IMSD trainees on their accomplishments!

Giovannia Barbosa received the 2024-2025 Vince Wernig Fellowship Award, a competitive Chemistry departmental fellowship that supports advanced students in the dissertation stage

Kelvin De Leon received an NIH Blueprint Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (D-SPAN) Award (F99/K00)

Janet Joseph was awarded the 2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) for her work with Laura Stroud, PhD, and the 2024 HHMI Gilliam Fellowship for her work with Patrycja Dubielecka-Szczerba, PhD

Kimberly Meza received the 2024 American Association for Cancer Research Minority in Cancer Research Scholar Award

Jazlyn Nketia received an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellowship (STPF)

Melanie Ortiz Alvarez De La Campa received a first place poster award in the Grad/Med Student category for their presentation at the 26th Annual Mind Brain Research Day

Amanda Ruiz was featured in the 2024 Brown University Graduate School Research Matters series and received the Teaching Excellence in Pre-College Education Award from Brown University’s Sheridan Center. Ruiz began her postdoc fellowship at the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard; she was selected as a MIT-Northpond Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow and received the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP) Fellowship