ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS
Graduate student awards 2011 Larry M. Lewellen Awards for Distinguished Service Dr. Famke Aeffner and Janelle Henderson were selected as recipients of the 2011 Larry M. Lewellen Award for Distinguished Service. Since 1974, the Council of Graduate Students has presented awards to those students, staff, faculty, administrators, and community members who have rendered exceptional service to graduate students at The Ohio State University. Committee members felt Janelle’s and Dr. Aeffner’s devotion to graduate students at the College of Veterinary Medicine is truly exceptional and worthy of this university-wide recognition.
Harold W. Casey Scholarship Award: Dr. Kelly Santangelo The Harold W. Casey Scholarship Award recognizes an outstanding individual training in pathology and striving to achieve ACVP certification. Only one recipient is named per year from training programs throughout North America. Dr. Santangelo initiated her dissertation research at Ohio State in 2004, as the Trueman Endowment PhD graduate research associate. She has been the recipient of an NIH National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship, a first place ACVP/ASVCP Young Investigator Award (natural disease), and a Young Investigator Award at the Merial-NIH National Veterinary Scholars Symposium. She was selected in 2009 as a clinical pathology resident, supported by Glaxo-Smith Kline through the ACVP-Society of Toxicologic Pathology (STP) coalition, and successfully defended her dissertation in 2011.
Charles C. Capen Student Travel Award in Experimental Pathology: Dr. Famke Aeffner Dr. Aeffner was recognized in the Experimental Disease Focused Scientific Session for the best trainee oral presentation, entitled “Aerosolized nucleotide synthesis inhibitor therapy for influenza A (H1N1) infection in mice.” The Charles Capen award is funded by the International Academy of Toxicologic Pathology. Dr. Aeffner has now received this recognition for two consecutive years. She was further recognized with an Intersociety Council for Pathology Information (ICPI) Travel Award and an ACVP Resident/Graduate Student Travel Award. She will present a talk and a poster on her research at the ACVP annual meeting.
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National awards honor former Ohio State faculty, help current students Drs. Charles and Sharron Capen, dedicated faculty members and veterinarians, have established awards administered by the American College of Veterinary Pathologists in their names. Both graduated from Ohio State and worked as faculty for the university. Dr. Charles Capen was considered by most as the world authority on veterinary endocrine pathology and was one of only a few veterinarians in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences. Dr. Sharron Capen was the first female faculty member in the College of Veterinary Medicine and also its first female full professor. One award is a graduate fellowship and the other a travel award for excellence in experimental pathology. (See Aeffner and BermanBooty below.)
Charles and Sharron Capen Fellowship in Veterinary Pathology: Dr. Lisa Berman-Booty This fellowship provides $30,000 per year for three years to be used to support the fellow’s stipend. Dr. Berman-Booty’s current research focus is the suppression of carcinogenesis and tumor progression by novel indole-3-carbinol derivatives and energy restriction mimetic agents in murine models of prostate cancer. Her academic advisor is Ching-Shih Chen, PhD, professor of medicinal chemistry, internal medicine, and urology from the College of Pharmacy.
