{"id":25001,"date":"2025-04-30T14:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/?p=25001"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:35:16","slug":"pharmacology-students-honored-at-27th-annual-graduate-student-recognition-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/pharmacology-students-honored-at-27th-annual-graduate-student-recognition-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacology students honored at 27th Annual Graduate Student Recognition Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Congratulations to Amy Aponte, Tania Bellinger, McKenzie Grundy Gehris, Sarah Mott, Ryan Robb, and Michael Sturdivant for being recognized at the 27th Annual Graduate Student Recognition Celebration!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25023\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 410px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/04\/All6honoredstudents-500.jpg\" alt=\"Pharmacology students honored at 27th Annual Graduate Student Recognition Celebration\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/04\/All6honoredstudents-500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/04\/All6honoredstudents-500-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/04\/All6honoredstudents-500-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Top (L to R): Amy Aponte, Tania Bellinger, and McKenzie Grundy Gehris. Bottom (L to R): Sarah Mott, Ryan Robb, and Michael Strudivant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"external\">The students were recognized for receiving prestigious External Fellowships awards. External fellowships, which are highly competitive awards from the federal government and other organizations, add to Carolina&#8217;s reputation as one of the world&#8217;s leading public research universities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Amy Aponte<\/strong>, NIH Fellowship (F31) &#8211; National Cancer Institute<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tania Jazmine Bellinger<\/strong>, NIH Fellowship (F31) &#8211; National Institute on Drug Abuse<\/li>\n<li><strong>McKenzie Grundy Gehris<\/strong>, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sarah Mott<\/strong>, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ryan Robb<\/strong>, NIH Fellowship (F31) &#8211; National Cancer Institute<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Sean Sturdivant<\/strong>, NIH Fellowship (F31) &#8211; National Cancer Institute<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These students have demonstrated exceptional dedication, resilience, and scholarly excellence, and we are so proud to see their hard work honored by the Graduate School. Their achievements reflect the strength and spirit of our department, and we\u2019re excited to celebrate them at this special event.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 120%\"><em>Our congratulations to all of these outstanding scholars!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gradschool.unc.edu\/events\/recognition\">Find out more about the 27th Graduate Student Recognition Celebration!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Amy Aponte, Tania Bellinger, McKenzie Grundy Gehris, Sarah Mott, Ryan Robb, and Michael Sturdivant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22429,"featured_media":25022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-student-postdoc-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/04\/All6honoredstudents-250.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/04\/All6honoredstudents-250.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/04\/All6honoredstudents-250.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/04\/All6honoredstudents-250.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/04\/All6honoredstudents-250-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Pharmacology students honored at 27th Annual Graduate Student Recognition Celebration","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/news\/"},{"name":"Student &amp; Postdoc News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/news\/student-postdoc-news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25001"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25028,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25001\/revisions\/25028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}