Milo Don Appleman Award: This award, established in memory of Milo Don Appleman, M.D.in 1974, is given to the most outstanding graduating senior pursuing a career in the clinical health sciences. This year’s recipient of the Milo Don Appleman Award is an HBIO undergraduate student: Simon Trinh.

Okin Award: This award was established in the memory of Dr. Milton Okin and is given to the most outstanding sophomore, junior or continuing senior. This year’s recipients of an Okin Award included two HBIO undergraduate students: Avery Lutter, and Suzan Sargsyan.

Milligan Fellowship: This award was established in 2020 in honor of Helen Leslie Milligan Turner who graduated from USC with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in human biology (formerly kinesiology) in 1957. Mrs. Milligan Turner enjoyed her time at USC and wanted to give back to students who are interested in research in human biology. This fellowship is given to students who are sophomore, junior or continuing senior to complete a summer research project. This year’s recipient of the Milligan Fellowship is: Lauren Teubner. Check out past recipients’ projects here.

Dornsife Gold Family Graduate Fellowship: Katie Beachem is honored to be the Summer 2021 recipient of the USC Dornsife Gold Family Graduate Fellowship. Beachem’s doctoral research aims to advance the understanding of communication in great apes by using an integrated approach to examine multimodal versus unimodal signal production in one of our closest living great ape relatives, the bonobo (Pan paniscus). This project represents the first of its kind as it will examine multimodal signaling trajectories across all three signaling modalities; namely, vocal, gestural and facial. Results from this work will advance our understanding of the origins of human language by examining how multimodal communication rates develop in one of our closest living relatives.

HBIO majors receiving awards at the 2021 Undergraduate SCymposium:

Sweta Bhagavatula – Honorable Mention for the Life Sciences 1 category
Lana Bridi – Second Prize for the Life Sciences 1 category
Samuel Jump – Second Prize for the American Physiological Society LURAP Award
Jaden Mullin – Honorable Mention, for the Life Sciences 1 category

The list of all winners with the recording of the award ceremony can be found at:
https://ahf.usc.edu/events/scymposium/awards/

HEB/HBIO Teaching Assistant Award: This award is given to teaching assistants who enrich student learning within and beyond the classroom. This year’s recipients of this award are: Katie Beachem, Katie Sayre, and Harper Stewart.

April 15, 2021: WiSE Alumni Lecture Series: Rebecca Peer (MS & PhD in Environmental Engineering, USC) will talk about careers in STEM: Finding motivation, mentorship, and meaning.