Eliah R. Shamir comes to us from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, VA where she received the Governor’s Seal of Academic Excellence. She has chosen to major in Biomedical Engineering and to minor in Global Public Health and presently has a GPA of 3.99.
Eliah’s leadership and service activities are quite extensive and diverse. She has served on the student advisory board and course selection committee for the Center for Global Health. She was the treasurer and vice-president for the Global Public Health Society. She has served as a mentor in the Young Women Leaders Program. She has been a pediatrics volunteer for the Madison House Medical Services at the University of Virginia Hospital and an auxiliary patient services volunteer at Fairfax Hospital. She has planned and organized four workshops and Symposia ranging in topic matter form Womens’ Safety Planning to Global Health Research completed by UVa medical students and undergraduates. She has also been a member of the University Singers.
She has worked in a number of different research capacities that include a research investigator in the nanosystems group at the Mitre Corporation, conducting HIV and AIDS vulnerability studies among migrants and challenges to health care delivery in Thailand, and a summer undergraduate research program fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Most recently, she served at a summer research Fellowship at Rockefeller University.
Her success as an exceptional scholar has been recognized by many. She is a Rodman Scholar and has received scholarships from: the Virginia Future Leaders VCTA, the National Society of Professional Engineers Auxiliary, the Bani Taneji Memorial, Jack E Aalseth, Best Buy, and E F Global Citizen. She received the Margaret Elinor George Scholarship for excellence in scholastics and other areas. She was elected to the Raven Society and has received a Raven Society Scholarship, and was also elected to Tau Beta Pi. She is a Barry Goldwater Scholar in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering. Most recently she was awarded the Robert W. and Eileen M. Honse Scholarship for academic merit in BME.
We are very proud of this young woman and are pleased to present the first of this year’s SEAS Outstanding Student Awards to Ms. Eliah R. Shamir.
