Published: November 4, 2022 Author: Staff reports
Deborah Swegan, an Air Force ROTC cadet and elder astatine Ohio University, was precocious awarded a competitory assistance to wage for aesculapian school. The Air Force’s Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) awards scholarships to lone 25 ROTC cadets each twelvemonth nationwide.
This is the 2nd twelvemonth successful a enactment that an OHIO Air Force cadet has been selected for the competitory scholarship. The 2021 assistance recipient, Second Lieutenant Skylar Boggs, is present a first-year pupil successful the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.
The Air Force Health Professions Scholarship covers afloat tuition and fees astatine the accredited U.S. aesculapian schoolhouse of the recipient’s choice. Recipients besides gain an yearly wage of $33,000 which includes a signing bonus for students who hold to a four-year committedness to the United States Air Force.
A first-generation pupil from Niles, Ohio, majoring successful Biological Sciences Pre-med with a insignificant successful Aerospace Studies, Swegan is the Vice Commander for OHIO’s Air Force ROTC Detachment 650 and is liable for ensuring the prime of grooming is astatine the highest standard. She says she loves moving with and grooming younger cadets to assistance hole them to beryllium leaders successful the United States Air Force and Space Force.
Swegan besides serves arsenic a probe adjunct successful Ohio University’s Edison Biotechnology Institute wherever she works successful the Kopchick Laboratory and reports straight to Research Associate Dr. Reetobrata Basu, studying the effects of combining a maturation hormone antagonist cause with antithetic chemotherapies to assistance trim chemotherapy absorption successful aggregate cancers. Her presumption is funded by AMVETS (American Veterans), via their enactment of the Kopchick Laboratory.
As Swegan prepares to postgraduate successful the spring, she has applied to respective aesculapian schools successful and astir Ohio and volition beryllium capable to utilize the Air Force Health Professions Scholarship astatine immoderate aesculapian school.
“Air Force ROTC gave maine the assurance to prosecute my imagination of becoming a physician,” Swegan said. “It besides gave maine the tools to beryllium a large person to my aboriginal Airmen."
For much accusation astir Air Force ROTC astatine Ohio University, sojourn ohio.edu/afrotc oregon email afrotc650@ohio.edu.
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