May 14, 2008

Two from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine have received honors.

Sylvia Fromherz, Ph.D., instructor of anatomy and MEDPREP in Carbondale, has been named a National Academies Education Fellow in the Life Sciences for the 2006-07 academic year.  The selection was based on her participation in the National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology, where teams from 16 research universities met at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in June 2006.  The focus of the institute is enhancing undergraduate biology education and participants developed teaching units for use in introductory courses work.

Fromherz joined the SIU faculty in 2007.  She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado in Boulder (1998).  She earned her doctorate in molecular and cellular biology at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. (1994) and her bachelor’s degree from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore. (1983).

Amanda Rabideau, a junior at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, has received a 2008 Summer Research Fellowship from the Endocrine Society.  The fellowship provides a summer stipend to do research in the laboratory of Prema Narayan, Ph.D., assistant professor of physiology at SIU School of Medicine in Carbondale.   The fellowship also covers Rabideau’s travel expenses for the society’s annual meeting in San Francisco in June. 

Rabideau, whose research focuses on ovarian follicle development in a mouse model, is majoring in physiology and philosophy at SIU.  She will graduate in 2009 and plans to pursue a career in medical research.  She is the daughter of Tom and Ruth Ann Rabideau from Pittsburg, Ill., and a graduate of Johnston City High School (2005).

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