James Patrick Berry is an incoming fall 2016 PSM-ABS student in the Molecular & Cellular Biology track...

James Patrick Berry graduated with a Bachelor of Science, major in biology with Biomedical Preference at the University of Arizona in 2015.  He was nominated by the program for the Graduate Access Fellowship award because he had all the eligibility requirements:

• Financial Need
• First Generation Student
• Other Challenges- some health problems

This award will provide him with $4,000 for Fall 2016!

James is actually is not the only PSM-ABS student to win this award, the other awardees were:

What is the Graduate Access Fellowship?

The UA Graduate College's Graduate Access Fellowship is intended to broaden the access of U.S. students to graduate education and to promote the diversity of our graduate student body. Eligibility for these fellowships is restricted to incoming domestic graduate students who are newly admitted for the fall term and who have shown academic achievement despite facing challenging social, economic or educational obstacles. Each fellowship provides up to $4,000 to students admitted to a Masters program, or $10,000 to those admitted to the PhD. The latter includes PhD-bound master's students in programs that require completion of the Master's before admission to the PhD, those pursuing an MFA requiring a minimum of 60 units, and those pursuing an MLA. Graduate Access Fellowships may be supplemented by other financial support provided by the academic program.

Read more at: https://legacyweb.grad.arizona.edu/gaf/about