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Jenni Isaac Honored With Goldwater Scholarship
4/5/2015 11:58:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Gavin McFarlin - Assistant SID
DAVIDSON, N.C. — Junior Jenni Isaac of the Davidson women's soccer team was recently honored as a prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholar and awarded an undergraduate scholarship that will be used for the 2015-16 school year.
Isaac, a midfielder on the team, was one of two Davidson students to earn the nationally awarded undergrad scholarship for science students, joining Annalee Tutterow. A native of Bridgewater, Conn., the soon to be senior is majoring in neuroscience and plans on earning a M.D./Ph. D. in the field. She hopes to conduct neuroscience research while working as a neurologist.
"I'm so honored to have received this award," said Isaac. "I feel incredibly blessed to go to a school like Davidson where not only can I compete as a Division I athlete, but I can also pursue my academic interests and conduct hands-on, graduate level research. Only at a school like Davidson would I have this opportunity. I'm grateful for my professors and fellow lab members who have served as mentors to me throughout my entire time here and have cultivated in me an interest in neuroscience research that continues to grow. Without them, this would not have been possible. I can't wait to carry on with my work in Dr. Ramirez's lab and I look forward to what the rest of my time here has in store."
Isaac's research, with the use of rats, has been studying the pathology of Alzheimer's disease. She has examined a specific network in the brain that have been heavily implicated in Alzheimer's. Specifically, she is interested in whether the brain is capable of rewiring itself after sustaining damage by neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Isaac's essay she wrote for the scholarship is about her thesis project which is investigating whether degeneration of a specific population of neurons is actually as responsible for the memory deficits associated with Alzheimer's disease as was once thought.
The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was authorized by the United States Congress in 1986 to honor Senator Barry Goldwater. The purpose of the scholarship is to alleviate a critical current and future shortage of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. A more realistic statement of the purpose, in today's terms, is to provide a continuing source of highly qualified individuals to those fields of academic study and research.
The Barry Goldwater Scholarship Program was created to encourage outstanding students to pursue research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering and to foster excellence in those fields.
Isaac has excelled both on the field as well as in the classroom during her three years at Davidson. A regular in the starting lineup the past two seasons, the midfielder has started 45 of her 58 career games played. She also has tallied a goal and two assists, both coming during her sophomore season.
A Southern Conference All-Academic Team member in 2013 and a two-time SoCon Honor Roll student-athlete, Isaac was one of just 11 women's soccer players this past Fall to earn Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team honors. She has a 3.92 grade point average in the classroom.
Isaac, a midfielder on the team, was one of two Davidson students to earn the nationally awarded undergrad scholarship for science students, joining Annalee Tutterow. A native of Bridgewater, Conn., the soon to be senior is majoring in neuroscience and plans on earning a M.D./Ph. D. in the field. She hopes to conduct neuroscience research while working as a neurologist.
"I'm so honored to have received this award," said Isaac. "I feel incredibly blessed to go to a school like Davidson where not only can I compete as a Division I athlete, but I can also pursue my academic interests and conduct hands-on, graduate level research. Only at a school like Davidson would I have this opportunity. I'm grateful for my professors and fellow lab members who have served as mentors to me throughout my entire time here and have cultivated in me an interest in neuroscience research that continues to grow. Without them, this would not have been possible. I can't wait to carry on with my work in Dr. Ramirez's lab and I look forward to what the rest of my time here has in store."
Isaac's research, with the use of rats, has been studying the pathology of Alzheimer's disease. She has examined a specific network in the brain that have been heavily implicated in Alzheimer's. Specifically, she is interested in whether the brain is capable of rewiring itself after sustaining damage by neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Isaac's essay she wrote for the scholarship is about her thesis project which is investigating whether degeneration of a specific population of neurons is actually as responsible for the memory deficits associated with Alzheimer's disease as was once thought.
The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was authorized by the United States Congress in 1986 to honor Senator Barry Goldwater. The purpose of the scholarship is to alleviate a critical current and future shortage of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. A more realistic statement of the purpose, in today's terms, is to provide a continuing source of highly qualified individuals to those fields of academic study and research.
The Barry Goldwater Scholarship Program was created to encourage outstanding students to pursue research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering and to foster excellence in those fields.
Isaac has excelled both on the field as well as in the classroom during her three years at Davidson. A regular in the starting lineup the past two seasons, the midfielder has started 45 of her 58 career games played. She also has tallied a goal and two assists, both coming during her sophomore season.
A Southern Conference All-Academic Team member in 2013 and a two-time SoCon Honor Roll student-athlete, Isaac was one of just 11 women's soccer players this past Fall to earn Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team honors. She has a 3.92 grade point average in the classroom.
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