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Graduate Medical Sciences has awarded three high-achieving, graduating students with Outstanding Student Achievement Awards in the categories of \u201cCommunity Service\u201d and \u201cOutstanding Research.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n The \u201cOutstanding Research\u201d Award recognizes achievement related to scientific impact, breakthroughs and intellectual contributions during a student\u2019s time at GMS. The \u201cCommunity Service\u201d Award recognizes initiative and leadership related to service either in fulfillment of graduate school requirements or extracurricular efforts. <\/span><\/p>\n Each student who won an award has made exceptional contributions to their departments and communities. Meet Todd W. Dowrey, Gloria Urrutia and Marine Chido Nimblette below.<\/span><\/p>\n Dowrey matriculated into the\u00a0PhD Program in Biomedical Sciences (PiBS)\u00a0in 2020 before transitioning to the\u00a0Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine (MTM)\u00a0following his first rotation year.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He currently works in the lab of\u00a0Assistant Professor of Medicine George Murphy, PhD,\u00a0who co-founded the Boston University and Boston Medical\u00a0Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM). Dowrey first joined the lab as a technician prior to beginning his PhD.<\/span><\/p>\n Dowrey\u2019s research centers on understanding healthy aging by studying centenarians, or individuals who live over 100 years, by developing a human stem cell-based model of resiliency. He studies how cells produced from centenarian subjects respond to stress and insult and how these responses may be different and more effective than cells produced from a typical ager.<\/span><\/p>\n Urrutia matriculated into the\u00a0MS in Medical Sciences (MAMS) Program\u00a0in 2023 and is preparing to graduate in May 2025. During her thesis year, Urrutia has worked on several projects addressing overlooked educational and healthcare barriers that disproportionately affect underrepresented communities.<\/span><\/p>\n For her thesis alongside\u00a0Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics Marisol Lopez, PhD, Urrutia investigated how technical flaws in physiology multiple-choice question (MCQ) assessments impact graduate and professional student performance.<\/span><\/p>\n The mixed-methods approach found that flawed MCQs may favor students who have knowledge of test-taking strategies and can navigate misleading question and answer choices. The research highlights the importance of effective MCQ construction in ensuring equitable assessments for students.<\/span><\/p>\n Nimblette is a member of the\u00a0MS in Medical Sciences\u00a0graduating class of 2025. Since 2024, she has served as one of 38 mayor-appointed members of the\u00a0SPARK Boston Council, where she advises Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on programs and policies that affect 20- to 35-year-olds across the city.<\/span><\/p>\n As council members, Nimblette and her cohort each represent a Boston neighborhood. Nimblette represents the Fenway\/Kenmore area, where she helps set policy priorities, address city issues, plan for Boston\u2019s future and increase civic engagement. She also meets monthly with city cabinet members and facilitates community service projects both in her representative neighborhood and across Boston.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Graduate Medical Sciences has awarded three high-achieving, graduating students with Outstanding Student Achievement Awards in the categories of \u201cCommunity Service\u201d and \u201cOutstanding Research.\u201d The \u201cOutstanding Research\u201d Award recognizes achievement related to scientific impact, breakthroughs and intellectual contributions during a student\u2019s time at GMS. The \u201cCommunity Service\u201d Award recognizes initiative and leadership related to service either […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20706,"featured_media":103928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[795,54,7074,1534],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103943"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103950,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103943\/revisions\/103950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Todd W. Dowrey ’25<\/strong><\/h2>\nPhD in Molecular & Translational Medicine, Program in Biomedical Sciences<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Read Todd’s full story here<\/strong><\/a>!<\/h4>\n
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Gloria Urrutia ’25<\/strong><\/h2>\nMS in Medical Sciences (MAMS) Program<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Learn more about Gloria’s research here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/h4>\n
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Marine Chido Nimblette ’25<\/strong><\/h2>\nMS in Medical Sciences (MAMS) Program<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Learn more about Marine’s time with SPARK here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"