This Year's Recipients
2023 Recipients
Lauren Keene is a Senior Research Project Manager in Cardiology at Feinberg School of Medicine. She is a student in the Masters in Regulatory Compliance program. Her goal is to protect the health and safety of participants in clinical research by assuring compliance with current regulatory requirements. She would like to join or create a group involved in community outreach to build trust and learn how to better serve underrepresented communities.
Stephanie Marin is a Senior Project Coordinator in the Office of the President. She is working on an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Chicago Studies. She was a first-generation, Pell-eligible student with a degree in Spanish and a minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from Northwestern. She also has a Master of Science in Higher Education Administration & Policy from Northwestern’s School of Education and Social Policy. She is working on an independent study on how Blacks in Illinois were incentivized to enlist for service in fighting the Civil War and how they returned to recalibrate to life in postwar America.
Komel Safdar is a Research Manager in the Ophthalmology Department at Feinberg School of Medicine. She is working on a Certificate in Clinical Research and would like to continue on to the Master’s in Regulatory Compliance. She started off as a medical student in Pakistan and moved to the United States for more opportunity for herself and her children. She hopes to continue working on clinical trials to help patients obtain life changing, cutting edge treatments in future.