School of Medicine

The Pulse

Association for Women in Science-Southern Louisiana Chapter (AWIS-SL)

Lisa M. Harrison-Bernard, PhD; President of the Association for Women in Science-Southern Louisiana Chapter (AWIS-SL)

Isabel Brassesco receives awardIsabel Stephany Brassesco, M.Sc., Predoctoral Fellow in the PhD Program in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology was named the Outstanding Young Scientist Travel Awardee. She will use the $500 travel award to attend the Molecular Parasitology and Kinetoplastid Molecular Cell Biology Meeting in Woods Hole, MA later this year. Dr. Lisa Harrison-Bernard, President AWIS-SL and Chair of the Awards Committee, presented the award at the AWIS-SL Annual Holiday Party hosted by Dr. Liz Simon, AWIS-SL Secretary.

The members of AWIS-SL donated gifts to two families in December for the Salvation Army Angel Tree Drive. The AWIS-SL family has brought cheer to the people around us. The gifts were dropped off with the help of last year’s AWIS-SL Travel Fund Awardee, Eden Gallegos.

AWIS Angel Tree Drive