Foundation awards $303,000 for fellowship and scholarships.The Foundation for Physical Therapy has awarded 21 scholarships and 1 fellowship through its Doctoral Opportunities for Clinicians and Scholars (DOCS) program. Tiffany Frimel, PT, MPT, PhD, Washington University in St Louis, has been named the recipient of the 2006 New Investigator Fellowship Training Initiative (NIFTI) fellowship. She is the first recipient of this newly restructured, 2-year, $78,000 award. The fellowship will support her research project "Skeletal Muscle Disuse and Recovery in Diabetic Neuropathic Associated Sarcopenia." The Promotion of Doctoral Studies Scholarships (PODS I & II) fund physical therapists who have completed 1 full year of doctoral coursework (PODS I) or physical therapists who have entered the post-candidacy phase of post-professional doctoral studies (PODS II). Recipients of the 2006 PODS I scholarships are: Joaquin A Barrios IV, PT, DPT, University of Delaware [3] The student body at the University of Delaware is largely an undergraduate population. Delaware students have a great deal of access to work and internship opportunities. ; George J Beneck, PT, MS, OCS, University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission ; Jaime Berlin, PT, MPT, University of Pittsburgh; Shauna D Dudley-Javoroski, PT, MPT, University of Iowa Not to be confused with Iowa State University. The first faculty offered instruction at the University in March 1855 to students in the Old Mechanics Building, situated where Seashore Hall is now. In September 1855, the student body numbered 124, of which, 41 were women. ; Shawn Farrokhi, PT, DPT, University of Southern California; Erin H Hartigan, PT, MS, DPT, University of Delaware; Wendy J Herbert, PT, MS, Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. ; Erika Nelson-Wong, PT, MSPT, DPT, University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (also referred to as UW, UWaterloo, or Waterloo) is a medium-sized research-intensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957. ; Brian W Noehren, PT, MSPT, University of Delaware; Sara A Scholtes, PT, DPT, Washington University in St Louis; and Catherine Siengsukon, PT, MSPT, University of Kansas The University of Kansas (often referred to as KU or just Kansas) is an institution of higher learning in Lawrence, Kansas. The main campus resides atop Mount Oread. Medical Center. The 2006 recipients of the PODS II scholarships are: Mark D Diehl, PT, MPT, Virginia Commonwealth University Formed by a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia in 1968, VCU has a medical school that is home to the nation's oldest organ transplant program. ; Sara P Gombatto, PT, MS, Washington University in St Louis; Larisa R Hoffman, PT, MSPT, University of Miami; Minna Hong, PT, MS, Washington University in St Louis; Wendy J Hurd, PT, MS, University of Delaware; Julia E Looper, PT, MSPT, University of Michigan; Donovan J Lott, PT, MS, Washington University in St Louis; Richard B Souza, PT, MPT, University of Southern California; John D Willson, PT, MSPT, University of Delaware; and Jason R Wingert, PT, MPT, Washington University in St Louis. Shauna D Dudley-Javoroski was awarded the Patricia Leahy Doctoral Scholarship, and Minna Hong received the Marylou Barnes Doctoral Scholarship, awarded for post-professional doctoral studies in neurology. Both scholarships are funded by the Foundation's Neurology Endowment Fund, generously endowed by APTA's Neurology Section. |
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