Congratulations to Mallory Shin, a student in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience and a member of Marco Hefti, MD’s research laboratory, for receiving the Kwak-Ferguson Award in neuroscience.

The Kwak-Ferguson Award is awarded to upper-level graduate students working in Alzheimer’s disease or related degenerative neurological diseases and must be eligible to present their work at the 2025 Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, California this November. This award can be used for research costs, travel, and related training expensive. 

The Kwak-Ferguson Fellowship was established by Donald Timm, a Muscatine, Iowa, native and graduate of the University of Iowa College of Law with a career spanning over 30 years at the U.S. Department of Defense as an expert on international law. He created the fellowship in honor of his two individuals- his friend and mentor, a Korean attorney and statesman, Myung-Duk Kwak, and his aunt, Louise A.M. (Amelia Marie) Brown Ferguson, an educator and missionary- who both died due to complications from Parkinson’s disease.