Janae Alexander received the SOPHE 2021 Graduate Student Research Paper Award recipient. The award is designed to foster quality graduate student research and provide a mechanism to recognize outstanding graduate students for creative and innovative research.  Ms. Alexander’s abstract, “Association between Marijuana use and the prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus,” was nominated for consideration. The abstract was selected for this award based on the review committee...

Dr. Lisa Wigfall was selected to receive the AACR Scholar-in-Training Award to support her attendance at the AACR Virtual Conference on The Sciences of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved.

Drs. Idethia Shevon Harvey and Tamika Gilreath were awarded the College of Education and Human Development’s Faculty Leadership Fellows Program (FLFP).

Francisco A. Montiel Ishino, a TCHER doctoral candidate in the Division of Health Education, abstract “A latent class analysis of acculturation on mean telomere length among Hispanics/Latinxs in the US” was chosen by the reviewers and Program Committee as an excellent student authored submission and was recognized as a Meritorious Abstract and Citation Abstract during the Society of Behavioral Medicine's 40th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions in Washington, DC. 

Jameisha Brown, a TCHER doctoral candidate in the Division of Health Education, has received a $4,000 Dean’s Graduate Award. The Dean’s Graduate Award for research advancement is a new scholarship provided by the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University.

Dr. Lisa Wigfall was selected as a recipient for the 2019 AACR Minority and Minority-Serving Institution Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research Award. Faculty Scholar Research Awards is supported by m the National Cancer Institute’s Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities.

Designed for teams of two researchers and one community leader, Interdisciplinary Research Leaders supports engaged research, crafted and conducted by innovative teams to explore a problem and apply a solution in real time, making an immediate positive impact in their home communities.

Rahma Mkuu received Graduate Honor Award from the College of Education and Human Development,

Rahma Mkuu has earned the APHA Women's Caucus Highest Scoring Student Abstract Award for her abstract titled "BMI and intimate partner violence among Kenyan women". Co-authors included Tamika Gilreath, Anna Gabriela Reyes, Elfreda Samman, and Idethia Shevon Harvey.

Dr. E. Lisako J. McKyer, associate professor in health education, is the recipient of a Distinguished Achievement Award in Graduate Mentoring from The Association of Former Students. This award is one of the highest university honors that can be bestowed upon a faculty or staff member.