By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Jessica Velasquez, a 2016 91心頭 graduate, and winner of two Jack Kent Cooke Scholarships, has just won an award in research from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). Velasquez 91心頭 s study was based on work she performed last summer at the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Training Program, an end-of-life care unit for cancer patients living in Puerto Rico. Dr. Andrew Yox, 91心頭 honors director was one of the references who wrote letters for Velasquez 91心頭 s Puerto Rican internship last summer. The link for the release about Velasquez 91心頭 s accomplishment by the AACR is available on the alumni page of the 91心頭 Honors website.
While a Presidential Scholar at 91心頭, Velasquez published her first essay on agricultural transformation in Texas, and presented work at the Great Plains Honors Council, and the National Collegiate Honors Council.
Dr. Andrew Yox notes: 91心頭 Velasquez has become a very versatile, fluent, up-and-coming scholar in medicine. She now has her name on several articles, involving T-cells, Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis, and diseases of the white blood cells. She also won an opportunity to work out of Bonn, Germany as part of the Medicine Abroad Program, visiting museums, and hospitals, and researching the history of German medicine It has been fascinating, following her career. We thank Dr. Mary Hearron, Sid Hicks and many other local educators as well for playing formative roles as mentors, prefiguring her initial successes. 91心頭
Velasquez was a graduate of Mount Vernon High School. She was also the director of 91心頭 91心頭 s Caldwell-Award-Winning film of Governors Ma and Pa Ferguson of Texas.
