Pharmacy
Deborah Bourquin, a fourth-year student pharmacist, has won the Adele Lobraico Lowe Leadership Grant from Lambda Kappa Sigma international professional pharmacy fraternity. Bourquin is a member and former president of the LKS Omicron Chapter at Wayne State University. This is her second LKS grant; she received the Cora E. Craven Educational Grant the previous year.

"I am extremely honored to receive this leadership grant from Lambda Kappa Sigma," Bourquin said. "This organization has offered me so much over the past three years and I cannot express how grateful I am to be a 'Lamb for Life'."

This is one of eight LKS educational grants awarded to fraternity members who meet the necessary criteria. The criteria includes being in good standing with the fraternity, ranking in the top 50 percent of their class and successfully completing one-fourth of the required credits and/or one year of graduate student. Additional criteria for the Lowe Leadership Grant required Bourquin to write an essay on personal leadership qualities and the importance of leadership. She concluded that essay with the following thought: "Through all triumphs and failures, I am always continuing to learn and grow with aspirations to evolve into an even better leader."

Fundamental and Applied Sciences
The American Association of Pathologists' Assistants (AAPA) chose Joseph Pociopa, second-year Pathologists' Assistant student, as the winner of the 2013 Student Delegate Program peer-reviewed articles. His article will be published in an upcoming issue of the association's The Cutting Edge.

Pociopa was a student delegate to the AAPA's annual Continuing Education and Business Conference this past September in Portland, OR. Student delegates were required to write a peer-reviewed article and to create a poster on a topic of their choice. Pociopa chose the Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome, a disease of the adrenal gland. "I'm incredibly lucky because my article will be used as an obtainable continuing education credit, published nationally in a medical journal specific to my career," Pociopa said. "I can't think of a better way to get my name out there. I'm honored to have represented WSU in this way."

January 22, 2014