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Assistant Professor Gloria Brar has been named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, and Assistant Professor Dirk Hockemeyer has been named a Pew-Stewart Scholar for Cancer Research by the Pew Charitable Trusts. There are only 22 biomedical scholars, and 5 cancer scholars named in the nation per year.
Photos of Gloria Brar and Dirk Hockemeyer courtesy of Mark Joseph Hanson of http://www.markjosephstudio.com/.