De Luca Foundation is pleased to announce the winners: $30k in COVID financial aid awarded to Graduate and Post-doctoral students worldwide

To strengthen the hands of future MOVEMENT SCIENTISTS during these difficult times, the De Luca Foundation is supporting 30 graduate students and post-docs each with $1,000.00 USD.

While researchers worldwide have been affected by the COVID-19 situation, those experiencing the largest strains are graduate students and post-docs who rely solely on grants and stipends to progress both science and their professional development. We hope the funds will provide temporary relief during the 2020 summer months while institutions, labs, and people adjust to a “new normal.”

Names of the recipients:

RecipientInstitution
Benjamin ConnerUniversity of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix
Carlos Ignacio De la fuenteUniversidade Federal de Pampa
Elizabeth Michele OrozcoTexas Woman’s University
Elmira PourrezaMiddle East Technical University
Fariba HasanbaraniMcGill University
Feifan WangThe University of Hong Kong
Gustavo BalbinotUniversity Health Network
Hélio V. CabralFederal University of Rio de Janeiro
Humberto De las CasasCleveland State University
Hyunjae JeonUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte
Isabel Alice ElyUniversity of Nottingham
James McDonnellIndiana University
Jaywoo KimUniversity of Michigan
John Jerome DavisIndiana University Bloomington
Kate Anne SpitzleyUniversity of Oregon
Keisuke KubotaGraduate School of Saitama Prefectural University
Kevin Mark BieseUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Kylie HarmonUniversity of Central Florida
Landon Bryce LempkeThe University of Georgia
Matheus Maia PachecoUniversity of Sao Paulo
Mathew Sunil VarreUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas
Mehran RahmaniUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Moeka SonooSaitama Prefectural University
Raza Naseem MalikUniversity of British Columbia
Shaquitta Rena DentUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
Sumire SatoUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Tanvir AhmedUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Tasnuva AlamGeorgia State University
Whitney Lauryn WolffUniversity of Michigan
Williane Oliveira Bernardes ValentinoUniversity of Eastern Finland
Note: Recipients of the EMG Equipment Donation Program will be announced during the week of June 1, 2020.