Alumni Association Awards Hippocrates Scholarship

The Alumni Association awarded the Hippocrates Scholarship to Urania Ng ’10. In each incoming class, one student is selected to receive the Hippocrates Scholarship, based on academic excellence. The Hippocrates Scholars receive $20,000 per year toward tuition during their four years at RWJMS.

A 2005 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Ms. Ng majored in molecular and cellular biology and minored in psychology. She committed to the pre-med track as a junior and conducted translational research using drosophila (fruit flies) to investigate the transcription factors involved in the development of salivary glands. “I would like to continue to do research,” she says. “It will help me understand the applications of basic science in clinical work. At the same time, when I look at my patients, I will know what problems most need to be answered by research.”

As an undergraduate, Ms. Ng volunteered in a Baltimore hospital and worked with women and children at My Sister’s Place, a center for women and children who are homeless. At an urban clinic for the uninsured, she gained patient-centered experience taking patients’ vital signs.

Ms. Ng feels honored to have been awarded the Hippocrates Scholarship
and thanks the Alumni Association for making it possible for her to attend medical school at RWJMS.

Photo Caption:
Carol A. Terregino, MD ’86, associate
professor of medicine and associate dean for admissions (left), and Peter S. Amenta, MD, PhD, interim dean, congratulate Urania Ng ’10, recipient of the Alumni Association’s Hippocrates Scholarship.

Mark your Calendar:

• May 21, 2007 Convocation
  
  
• Cardiovascular Symposium 2007:
  
  Innovations and Trends in Cardiovascular Disease
  Saturday, October 6, 2007
  The Heldrich Hotel and Conference Center
  New Brunswick
  
  For additional information,
  please visit:  www.rwjuh.edu/symposium
  or call 732-418-8030.
  
  
• May 22, 2007 Commencement
  
  
• October 12–14, 2007
  Alumni Reunion Weekend
  Saturday evening October 13:
  Alumni Reunion Dinner Dance
  The Heldrich New Brunswick
  
  Honoring the following
  anniversary classes:
  35th: 1971, 1972
  30th: 1976, 1977
  25th: 1981, 1982
  20th: 1986, 1987
  15th: 1991, 1992
  10th: 1996, 1997
  5th: 2001, 2002
  
  For additional information, contact Roberta Ribner, Coordinator,
  Alumni Affairs, 732-235-6310 or email: ribnerrs@umdnj.edu.

Continuing Medical Education

• April 2007
  17th Annual GI Symposium

For additional information on these or future CME activities, visit www.umdnj.edu/ccoe or contact RWJMS-Continuing and Outreach Education at 732-235-7430.

Alumni Association Awards $200,000 in Loans
and Scholarships

The Alumni Association Board of Trustees approved $200,000 in contributions to RWJMS for the 2006–2007 academic year. This sustains a tradition that has led to contributions totaling more than $1.8 million in the past two decades.

For the current academic year, students have been awarded scholarships and low-interest loans totaling $175,000. In addition, the association made its fourth $25,000 contribution to the $100,000 RWJMS Alumni Association Scholarship Fund. “The students are our focus and our mission,” says Steven H. Krawet, MD ’89, president, Alumni Association. “Scholarships and low-interest loans help defray the high costs of today’s medical education and ease the burden for students at a time that is already incredibly stressful.”

This year’s Alumni Association scholarships include one new Hippocrates Scholarship and three continuing ones.

In addition to the Alumni Association scholarships, individual alumni have endowed scholarship funds of $25,000 or more. Alumni who contribute $1,000 or more to the Annual Fund can name a scholarship in honor or memory of a classmate, friend, or family member.