{"id":27808,"date":"2026-04-21T13:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/?p=27808"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:00:50","slug":"five-pharmacology-graduate-students-recognized-at-the-annual-graduate-student-recognition-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/five-pharmacology-graduate-students-recognized-at-the-annual-graduate-student-recognition-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Pharmacology graduate students recognized at the Annual Graduate Student Recognition Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Congratulations to Amy Aponte, Mckenzie Gehris, Anh Luu, Ryan Robb and Michael Sturdivant!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27521 size-thumbnail alignnone\" style=\"padding-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/02\/Amy-Aponte-phd-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Aponte, PhD\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/02\/Amy-Aponte-phd-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/02\/Amy-Aponte-phd.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18282 size-thumbnail alignnone\" style=\"padding-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2022\/06\/mckenzie-grundy-300-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"McKenzie Gehris\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2022\/06\/mckenzie-grundy-300-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2022\/06\/mckenzie-grundy-300-3.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23369 size-thumbnail alignnone\" style=\"padding-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2024\/06\/anh-nguyen-minh-luu-cr5-400-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Anh Luu\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2024\/06\/anh-nguyen-minh-luu-cr5-400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2024\/06\/anh-nguyen-minh-luu-cr5-400-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2024\/06\/anh-nguyen-minh-luu-cr5-400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19297 size-thumbnail alignnone\" style=\"padding-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2022\/08\/Ryan-Robb-250x250-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Robb\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2022\/08\/Ryan-Robb-250x250-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2022\/08\/Ryan-Robb-250x250-1.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19406 size-thumbnail alignnone\" style=\"padding-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2022\/08\/Michael-Strudivant-180sq-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Sturdivant\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2022\/08\/Michael-Strudivant-180sq-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2022\/08\/Michael-Strudivant-180sq.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photos left to right above: Amy Aponte, McKenzie Gehris, Anh Luu, Ryan Robb, and Michael Sturdivant.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Annual Graduate Student Recognition Celebration is held to honor \u201cgraduate and professional students for outstanding achievements in research, community service, teaching and leadership during academic year 2025-2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Amy Aponte<\/b>, NIH Fellowship (F31) \u2013 National Cancer Institute<\/li>\n<li><b>McKenzie Gehris<\/b>, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program<\/li>\n<li><b>Anh Luu<\/b>, American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship<\/li>\n<li><b>Ryan Robb<\/b>, NIH Fellowship (F31) \u2013 National Cancer Institute<\/li>\n<li><b>Michael Sturdivant<\/b>, NIH Fellowship (F31) \u2013 National Cancer Institute<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These students are all <b>external award winners<\/b> and are being honored for their exceptional achievements and contributions to research. Their dedication, hard work, and commitment to excellence reflect the very best of our academic community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gradschool.unc.edu\/students\/events\/recognition\/2026-graduate-student-recognition-celebration\/\">Read more about the recognition ceremony and 2025-2026 awardees here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Amy Aponte, Mckenzie Gehris, Anh Luu, Ryan Robb and Michael Sturdivant for your well earned recognition!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22429,"featured_media":27818,"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":[11,2,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-student-postdoc-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/04\/PHCO-grads-honored-2026-250.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/04\/PHCO-grads-honored-2026-250.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/04\/PHCO-grads-honored-2026-250.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/04\/PHCO-grads-honored-2026-250.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/04\/PHCO-grads-honored-2026-250-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"PHCO Grads honored at Graduate Student Recognition Ceremony 2026 for being recipients of external grant awards.","category_details":[{"name":"Featured News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/featured\/"},{"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\/27808","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=27808"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27823,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27808\/revisions\/27823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}