2018 Rowe Scholar: Victor Jacome
Victor Jacome has volunteered at a nursing home where he helps care for elderly patients in the acute care hospital center. A native of Wallingford, CT, this nursing major graduated from Lyman Hall...
View Article2018 Rowe Scholar: Faria Mahjabin
Faria Mahjabin is a biological sciences major and a potential math minor. She loves to learn languages and is currently fluent in four. Her next language to acquire is Spanish. Faria is from Stamford,...
View Article2018 Rowe Scholar: Maifrak Sobrino
Maifrak Sobrino’s name comes from a combination of her parents’ names. ‘Mai’, for her mother Maira, and ‘frak’ for her father Frank. Originally from the Dominican Republic, Maifrak moved when she was...
View Article2018 Rowe Scholar: Tyra Vanriel
Tyra Vanriel grew up in Westchester, NY but loves to visit family in Jamaica and enjoy the beautiful island. She finished her last three years of high school in Connecticut, graduating from Greenwich...
View Article2018 Rowe Scholar: Stacy-Ann Wallen
Stacy-Ann Wallen is a budding author and nurse. She writes chapter books which she hopes to publish someday, and she’s volunteered at Saint Francis Hospital for two years. She’s worked in the Radiology...
View Article2019 Rowe Scholar: Leroy Griffiths, Jr.
Leroy Griffiths, Jr. Leroy Griffiths, Jr. began his foray into the health professions when he was just nine years old and became a member of the Red Cross Foundation. Through this program he has...
View Article2019 Rowe Scholar: Jaydel Hernandez
Jaydel Hernandez Jaydel Hernandez is a biology major but is thinking about adding a minor or double major in a politics-related field to help in her pursuit of a career as a doctor who practices...
View Article2019 Rowe Scholar: Jerome Jacobs
Jerome Jacobs Jerome Jacobs is originally from Boston, MA but graduated from Rockville High School in Vernon, CT. He says that science has always been his passion, especially learning about how human...
View Article2019 Rowe Scholar: Zaiba Khan
Zaiba Khan Zaiba Khan is a molecular and cell biology major who plans to minor in political science and Spanish. She has worked in an UConn Health research lab on virtual cell modeling and analysis...
View Article2019 Rowe Scholar: Sandra Osei-Boasiako
Sandra Osei-Boasiako Sandra Osei-Boasiako has played tennis since she was a freshman in high school, and enjoys reading and meeting new people. Originally from Columbus, OH, she has lived in East...
View Article2019 Rowe Scholar: Shaharia Ferdus
Shaharia Ferdus Shaharia Ferdus is originally from Bangladesh but grew up in Meriden, CT where she graduated from Orville H. Platt High School. She loves to get to know different languages, cultures,...
View Article2019 Rowe Scholar: Lourdes Leguiza
Lourdes Leguiza Lourdes Leguiza is an allied health sciences major of Argentinian descent from Greenwich, CT, where she graduated in 2017 from Greenwich High School. She has interned at a local...
View Article2019 Rowe Scholar: Meghan Long
Meghan Long Meghan Long has a unique middle name story. Her middle name is “Vannary”, which is the female version of her father’s name, “Sovanna”, and it means “princess” in Khmer, which is her...
View Article2019 Rowe Scholar: Yvette Oppong
Yvette Oppong Yvette Oppong is a fan of ‘The Office’, but has also found time this summer to conduct research at UConn Health in the Center for Molecular Oncology, where she studied Paget’s Disease of...
View Article2019 Rowe Scholar: Romoye Sohan
Romoye Sohan Romoye Sohan has been involved in multiple UConn Health Health Career Opportunities Program offerings and volunteers at Windham Hospital. She’s a biological sciences major on the...
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