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Outstanding Teachers and Students Advance a Healthy Future


Texans are looking ahead to a healthy future thanks to the dozens of donors who contributed to TMA’s Minority Scholarship Program (MSP) and the Ernest and Sarah Butler Award for Excellence in Science Teaching (STA). The winning teachers and medical students are recognized each spring during TMA’s TexMed.


The MSP identifies the most promising minority medical students to receive a $10,000 scholarship. A first-year medical student at each of Texas’ medical schools is selected for outstanding health care volunteerism and experience, community service and high academic standing and achievement.


Chelsea Atwell (left), 6th grade science teacher at Austin Academy of Excellence in Dallas, won second place in the 2016 TMA Ernest and Sarah Butler Awards for Excellence in Science Teaching. TMA President Deborah A. Fuller, MD, pre- sented the academy with a $1,000 grant for the school’s science program. The funds will be used to purchase 70 edi- tions of The American Heritage Student Science Dictionary, Second Edition, for the 900 students who make up the middle school.


Established 26 years ago, the STA is supported by a TMAF endowment established by Dr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Butler, Austin and gifts from other generous donors. At this year’s luncheon, three Texas teachers were honored for their commitment to enhancing science illiteracy by delivering innovative, hands-on science education to engage their students. The second place winners are honored with a plaque, and their school receives a $1,000 grant for its science curriculum.


Top donors to these 2016 programs are listed on page 9. Join them to help create a healthy future by donating to these initiatives at www.tmaf.org, or call (800) 880-1300, ext. 1466.


Pictured left to right: Deborah Fuller, MD,


TMA Foundation President; Lauren Paquette of Hobby Elementary in Houston; Nancy Brown of Charles Baxter Jr. High School in Everman; Kenric Davies of Sherman High School


in Sherman; and Diana Fite, MD, TMA Board of Trustees and chair of the Educational Scholarship, Loan, & Awards Committee.


Finny Philip, AP Biology teacher at Berkner High School in Dallas, won second place in the 2016 TMA Ernest and Sarah Butler Awards for Excellence in Science Teaching. Milla Perry Jones, TMAF Board Member, presented the Berkner STEM Academy with a $1,000 grant for the school’s science program. The funds will be used for a guided- inquiry lab in which students gather sample food items from the grocery store, extract DNA from the samples, amplify the DNA using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and use agarose gel electrophoresis to identify the presence or absence of amplified GMO sequences.


Recipients in the 2016 TMA Minority Scholarship Program are (left to right): Stephanie Trujillo-Molina, Everardo F. Ibarra, Laura Victoria Moore, Diana Alexandra Rascon, David Samuel Chapman, Juan Valente Resendez; Cooper Joel Quiroz, Amanda Rae Arreola, Monika Pyarali, Bianca Arechiga, and Oswaldo Francisco Renteria.


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