Thomas & Mary Duff Graduate Tuition Fellowship
Rachel Prom - Upsala, MN | Rachel graduated from UMD with degrees in Organizational Management and Writing Studies. She currently works within Learning & Development at a renewable energy construction company. She likes to spend her free time with her family and friends outdoors, making music, or on a lake.
Fred C. and Mary H. Lewis UMD MBA Scholarship
There were no applicants this year
Maki Graduate Tuition Fellowships
Michael Cook - Rochester, MN | Michael is a registered professional engineer and is the Regulatory Compliance Coordinator for Olmsted County's Environmental Resources Department and has a background in solid waste management, design, construction, permitting and planning. When he is not working, he is busying spending time with this children and family.
Anita Mohan - London, England | Anita Mohan is currently a resident physician in Plastic Reconstructive Surgery at Mayo Clinic, previous surgical training in UK and South Africa and obtained her PhD in microsurgical reconstruction. She is interested in innovations and technology and its application in healthcare and surgery. In her spare time she loves to travel the world, hike, photography, scuba-diving, running and tennis.
LSBE Graduate Student Tuition Fellowships
Brian Bakalyar | Brian is the leader of the Energy Services Team at Werner Electric. His team focuses on the technical sales of solar power, energy storage and electric vehicle charging. In his free time, Brian likes spending time with his family fishing, hunting, boating and camping.
Amy Blank - Byron, MN | Amy Blank is the IT Project Manager at Ellingson Companies. Her hobbies include gardening with her husband and spending time with their 6 children.
Amrita De - Kolkata, India | Amrita is a Linguist by profession and has a background in Natural Language Processing and Teaching with a Masters in Linguistics. She has worked as a research trainee in Mayo clinic. She has decided to do an MBA to develop her analytical and management skills and switch her career from academics to industry. She enjoys spending her leisure time in reading, listening to music and with friends and family.
Shuai Li | Shuai Li is a principal research technologist at Mayo Clinic and has a background in entrepreneurship from multiple startups with a Ph.D. in Neuroscience. He enjoys spending time with his family out in MN state parks.
Helena Mendes-Soares - Lisbon, Portugal | Helena is a Senior Program Coordinator in the Center for Individualized Medicine at Mayo Clinic where she's doing her best to help streamline the current scientific process by removing administrative barriers and developing research support tools. In her free time she enjoys learning new things and volunteering in the community.
Uttio Roy Chowdhury | Uttio is a research scientist in the Department of Ophthalmology at Mayo Clinic. He primarily works on understanding the pathology of debilitating eye diseases like glaucoma. He has a masters in Zoology and a PhD in Life Sciences. He loves gardening and playing guitar in his spare time. He especially enjoys playing popular tunes of songs for his daughter.