Michael Ho is the archetypal successful UAB’s past to beryllium awarded this prestigious assistance by AED successful designation of his scholastic achievements successful academics arsenic good arsenic extracurriculars.
Written by: Tehreem Khan
Media contact: Alicia Rohan
Michael Ho, a University of Alabama astatine Birmingham alumnus, was awarded the 2022 Virgil L. Tweedie Scholarship worthy $10,000 by Alpha Epsilon Delta, a nationalist wellness and aesculapian pre-professional honors society.
This prestigious assistance is awarded to lone 1 pupil successful the full nation, recognizing 1 outstanding pre-medical oregon pre-dental pupil successful bully world lasting who exemplifies world and extracurricular excellence. The assistance goes straight toward the student’s outgo of attendance for aesculapian school.
“As the archetypal recipient successful UAB’s history, I americium highly honored and grateful to person received this award,” Ho said. “The grant volition beryllium a tremendous enactment successful helping maine with the outgo of aesculapian school. More so, I judge this assistance is simply a testament of each the large things the Alabama Delta section has done astatine UAB, arsenic good arsenic wrong the surrounding Birmingham area.”
To beryllium eligible, Ho went done a rigorous exertion process that required 2 proposal letters — 1 from the AED section advisor and 1 from an AED section subordinate astatine UAB.
“Michael Ho has been actively progressive with AED since his freshman year, moving up the ranks from subordinate associate to unpaid coordinator, to secretary, to president,” said Delia Lewis, erstwhile section advisor of AED astatine UAB. “He has exhibited courage, dedication, selflessness and beardown leadership, and I cannot deliberation of a pupil much deserving of the Tweedie Scholarship.”
Ho graduated from UAB successful outpouring 2022 with a grade from the College of Arts and Sciences in neuroscience and French and extended co-curricular engagement experience. While astatine UAB, helium served the Alabama Delta section of AED arsenic the unpaid director, caput and, ultimately, president during his elder year.
AED created this assistance successful 2004 to grant 1 of AED’s astir beloved members, Virgil L. Tweedie, and his wife. They were among AED’s astir progressive members, serving successful assorted roles passim their time, including module sponsor, portion director, nationalist councilor and nationalist president for 8 years.
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