ETSU College of Public Health presents awards of excellence to students
JOHNSON CITY – East Tennessee State
University’s College of Public Health presented several
students with awards of excellence and scholarships at the
college’s recent Student Awards Ceremony.
In the ETSU Department of Biostatistics and
Epidemiology,
Liang Wang received the Student Award of
Excellence. Wang, a native of Guangdong Province, China, completed
his master of public health degree in the College of Public Health
and is currently enrolled in the Doctor of Public Health Program.
In the Department of Community Health,
Erin Dula of Kingsport received the award for the
Outstanding Undergraduate Student.
Satya Villuri, a native of Visakhapatnam, India,
received the award for the Outstanding Master’s Student.
Katie Baker of Greeneville was recognized as the
Outstanding Doctor of Public Health Student. The Chair’s
Service Award went to
Antonia Adinolfi of Kingsport, while
Jessica Ringhoffer of Pounding Mill, Va., received
the “Unsung Hero” Award.
In the Department of Health Sciences,
Blountville native
Ada Reynolds was honored as Student of the Year.
Sarah Hoss received recognition for scholastic
excellence and superior achievements in the field of microbiology.
In the Department of Health Services
Administration,
Katie Murphy, a Southwest Virginia native, was
honored as the Outstanding Undergraduate Student. Unicoi resident
Susan Michelle Ramsey was recognized as the
Outstanding Master of Public Health Student.
John Shutze of Hattiesburg, Miss., received the
Chair’s Service Award.
Several students were presented with College of Public Health scholarships.
Jessica Blevins of Elizabethton was awarded the
Calvin B. Garland Award. Johnson City’s
Rachael Branham received the Bruce A. and Amelia
R. Goodrow Endowment.
Jeanna “Mikki” Johnson of Johnson City
received the Jay L. and LeVenia S. Allen Memorial Scholarship. All
three are students in the Department of Community Health.
In the Department of Health Services
Administration,
Aubrey Childress of Brevard, N.C., received the
John P. Lamb Jr. Memorial Scholarship. Elizabethton resident
Brad McNeil, a student in the Department of
Environmental Health, received the Joe F. Lynch Memorial
Scholarship.
The ETSU College of Public Health is
Tennessee’s only accredited school of public health and the
only one in south-central Appalachia.