Jennifer Kossoris, a Hope College senior from Jenison, was honored earlier this month as the recipient of a 1999 Pfizer Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship.
A total of 59 undergraduates nationwide received
the fellowships for this past summer. The $5,000 awards
support students between their junior and senior years as
they conduct independent research on their own campus with a
faculty mentor.
Kossoris was recognized during a two-day
conference held at Pfizer Inc. in Groton, Conn., on
Thursday-Friday, Oct. 7-8. In addition to the awards
ceremony, the conference provided an opportunity for the
students to make presentations concerning the summer
research that the fellowships had supported.
Kossoris was one of 12 students to receive a
fellowship in support of biology research. She spent the
summer working with Dr. Maria Burnatowska-Hledin of the Hope
faculty. It was her third summer working in Burnatowska-
Hledin's laboratory.
She is a biology and chemistry major who plans to
attend medical school after graduation. In addition to
research, her activities at the college have included the
Tri Beta biology honorary society, the Mortar Board honorary
society, the biology departmental club, and the Gospel Choir
and orchestra.
Among other honors at Hope, she has received the
college's de Kruif Writing and Wolterink prizes in biology,
and the Undergraduate Award for Achievement in Organic
Chemistry. She has also been named to the Hope dean's list
every semester.
Kossoris is the daughter of Dan and Sue Kossoris
of Jenison. She is a 1996 graduate of Jenison High School.