Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students |
 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL, MD, AWARD |
| Description
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This award made possible through the generosity of Penny Kanner, PhD.
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Amount |
One $1000 award. |
Criteria |
For a publishable research report, thesis, dissertation or published article by a UCLA graduate student relating to women, health or women in health-related sciences. (Examples include medicine, biological and other sciences, public health, sociology of medicine, history of science, medical education, or health policy.) Multi-authored articles will be considered, as long as the applicant has made a significant contribution to the research. |
To apply |
The application must contain the following materials in hard copy only:
Three copies of each:
One copy of:
- Letters of recommendation from two faculty members. The letters should be sealed in an
envelope
with the recommender’s signature
across the back flap.
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Deadline |
5:30 PM
Thursday, March 5, 2009 |
| Previous Winners |
| 2007-2008 |
2 |
Cleopatra Abdou |
Cleopatra Abdou received this award for her research report entitled “Communal
Cultural Orientation Predicts Maternal Prenatal and Postpartum Health
Better than Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status.” |
Edwin Valladares |
Edwin M. Valladares is a master’s student in the department of
Physiological Sciences at UCLA. Edwin is interested in determining the
neural mechanisms associated with impaired sleep and autonomic function
in Obstructive Sleep Apnea patients, Alcohol/Drug Abuse patients
and in healthy men and women. His principal research modalities are
Polysomnography (Sleep EEG) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
of the brain. Edwin was considered for the Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D.
award on the basis of his co-authored article “Sex Differences in Cardiac
Sympathovagal Balance and Vagal Tone During Nocturnal Sleep”, which was published in the journal Sleep
Medicine in March 2008. |
| 2006-2007 |
F |
Rene Almeling |
Rene Almeling is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at UCLA,
where she is writing a dissertation called “Selling Genes,
Selling Gender: Egg Agencies, Sperm Banks, and the Medical
Market in Genetic Material.” Her broad research interests
include gender, economics, and medicine. More information
is available at http://almeling.bol.ucla.edu/. |
A. Janet Tomiyama |
A. Janet Tomiyama is a Ph.D. student in Social Psychology at
UCLA, with concentrations in Health and Quantitative Psychology,
who expects to graduate in June 2009. For consideration
for the Blackwell award, Tomiyama submitted her co-authored
article “Medicare’s Search for Effective Obesity Treatments:
Diets are not the Answer,” described as a “significant contribution
to research on dieting, weight loss interventions, and
obesity,” by one of her recommenders, and published in the
April 2007 issue of American Psychologist, the official journal
of the American Psychological Association. She has also coauthored
an article, “Cultural Models, Socialization goals, and
Parenting Ethnotheories: A Multi-cultural Analysis,” which was
published in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. |
| 2005-2006 |
5 |
Ellen Setsuko Hendriksen |
Ellen Setsuko Hendriksen is a Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology at UCLA. Her paper, “Predictors of Condom Use Among South African Youth Age 15-24: The RHRU National Youth Survey,” which is in press with the American Journal of Public Health, demonstrates the disproportional burden of HIV prevalence among young women in South Africa in the broader context of gender issues that young women face related to economic and educational opportunities, partner violence, and control of their own reproductive health. |
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