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Lab Coat Ceremony, August 20, 2012
The second annual Lab Coat Ceremony was held at 4:00PM to welcome the new graduate students into the BMS program. The students were welcomed by Dr. Patricia Komuniecki, Vice Provost Graduate Affairs, Dean College of Graduate Studies and Dr. Randall Ruch, Associate Dean, COM Graduate Programs and Mr. Dan Saevig, Associate Vice President for Alumni Relations. Each graduate student was presented a lab coat and a coffee mug imprinted with the program logo by Mr. Daniel Saevig, assisted by Marianne Pohlman. Following the ceremony the students were addressed by Dr. Randall Ruch standing in for Dr. Dorothea Sawicki, Associate Dean College of Graduate Studies & Vice Chancellor for Graduate Health Science Studies and Gaurav Mehta, president of the Council of Biomedical Graduate Students.
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| Dr. Patricia Komuniecki, Prince Tuffour Ampem, Dulat Bekbolsynov, Eric Starr, Erin Semple, Bruce Heck, Mani Maheshwari, Kristen Robinson, Shengnan Du, Kate Dvorak, Adaeze Izuogu, Shannon Brewer, Benjamin Chaney, Amanda Blaker, Xiaoliang Wang, Prabhatchandra Dube, Xi Cheng, Yoheng Wang, Bryan DeWitt, Drew Trunk and at the back Dr. Randall Ruch |
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| Dr. Patricia Komuniecki, Vice Provost Graduate Affairs, Dean College of Graduate
Studies welcomes the new students |
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| Mr. Daniel Saevig, Associate Vice President Alumni Relations addresses the new students |
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| Mr. Daniel Saevig, Associate Vice President Alumni Relations presents Prabhatchandra Dube with his lab coat |
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| Shengnan Du receives her lab coat |
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| Erin Semple receives her lab coat |
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| Mani Maheshwari receives her coffee mug from Marianne Pohlman |
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| Prince Tuffour Ampem receives his lab coat |
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| Shannon Brewer receives her coffee mug |
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| Gaurav Mehta, President Council of Biomedical Graduate Students |
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| New graduate students Mani Maheshwari and Adaeze Izuogu with Dr. Komuniecki and second year student Nneka Mbah |
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| Mr. Dan Saevig, Associate Vice President for Alumni Relations and Dr. Randall Ruch, Associate Dean, COM Graduate Programs |
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| Dulat Bekbolsynov receives his lab coat |
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| Amanda Blaker |
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| Benjamin Chaney |
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| Xi Cheng |
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| Bryan DeWitt |
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| Kate Dvorak |
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| Simona Ghanem |
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| Bruce Heck |
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| Kristen Robinson |
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| Eric Starr |
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| Drew Trunk |
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| Xiaoliang Wang |
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| Xiaoliang Wang |
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| Yongheng Wang |
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