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July 31, 2010

Enid News and Eagle

Maurer joins NYU medical training program

Eight new students have joined the NYU Medical Scientist Training Program for this academic year, capping the efforts of another successful recruiting year for the M.D./Ph.D. Program.

Katie Maurer is a first-year student at the University of Rochester and will start her medical training Aug. 23.

More than 100 faculty members and 22 members of the recruitment committee reviewed the applications of almost 400 prospective candidates last fall. After seven intensive interviewing-day sessions, the MSTP extended invitations to applicants from a cross-section of outstanding undergraduate institutions, including Berkeley, Brown, Caltech, Columbia, Cooper Union, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, Penn, Princeton, Stanford, Swarthmore, Tufts and Yale.

The NYU MSTP has been awarded 29 training slots to assure the ongoing funding of its training program by the National Institutes of Health for the next five years. As one of the three oldest physician-scientist training programs, the NYU MSTP has been continuously funded for more than four decades and has produced more than 285 graduates, three quarters of whom have remained in academic medicine.

Katie is the daughter of Greg and Angie Maurer of Enid. She graduated Cum Laude from the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y., on May 16. She has been accepted into the M.D./Ph.D. Program at New York University School of Medicine.

Tyson awarded $1,500 Vance AFB college scholarship

Benjamin Tyson, of Enid, is a recipient of a $1,500 college scholarship awarded at Vance Air Force Base by the annual Scholarships for Military Children Program. Vance is one of more than 250 commissaries operated worldwide by the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA).

He is the son of Thomas Tyson and plans to attend Oklahoma State University.

Applicants for the 2010 program were required to maintain a minimum 3.0 grade point average, participate in voluntary school and community activities, demonstrate leadership qualities and write an essay on “You can travel back in time, however, you cannot change events. What point in history would you visit and why.”