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April 18, 2001

UNM BIOLOGY STUDENT RECEIVES FELLOWSHIP FROM PHI KAPPA PHI

University of New Mexico biology student Ashlee Othick was one of 50 students nationwide who received a fellowship award from the Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship Program recently. Othick, a senior who will graduate this May, will use the fellowship to attend veterinary school at Colorado State beginning this fall.

A 1998 graduate from the Albuquerque Academy, Othick received a Regents’ Scholarship to attend UNM and was a member of the Honors Student Advisory Council in the University Honors Program. She has also been a member of the UNM track team for more than three years. Othick’s community services has included volunteering at an animal hospital, Presbyterian Hospital, Cuidando Los Ninos Day Care Center and the UNM Cancer Research Center.

The Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship Program is one of the largest and most respected scholarship programs in the country awarding more than $380,000 annually to outstanding students for first-year graduate study. The multidisciplinary nature of the Phi Kappa Phi is reflected in its Fellowship and Award of Excellence recipients. Awardees represent a variety of fields including biology, chemistry, engineering, political science, mathematics and psychology. Likewise, the professions they select are equally diverse: law, medicine, business, education, science or the arts.

Each year, Phi Kappa Phi offers 50 Fellowships of up to $7,000 each and 30 awards of Excellence of $1,000 each. Every chapter has the opportunity to submit one nominee and each person nominated receives an Active-For-Life memberships in Society. More than 2,000 students have benefitted since the program’s inception in 1929.

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