Marek B. Zaleski Award
This award is given to a second-year medical student who demonstrates high standards of academic achievement and outstanding service to the community and exemplifies the spirit of a Renaissance man or woman.
Eligibility
Second-year medical student
Deadline for Submission
Late August
Selection Process
If you are a second-year medical student, you will have the opportunity to nominate classmates for this award. You will be chosen if you receive the most votes.
Notification
If you are selected as a recipient of the Zaleski award, we’ll notify you with a letter.
Award
If you receive this cash award, you will be recognized during our annual Honors Convocation.
Past Recipients
- Chloe Cottone (2024)
- Joseph Current (2023)
- Victoria Hoffman (2022)
- Maya Raghavan (2021)
- Stephanie Newman (2020)
- Alexandra Marrone (2019)
- Jacob Friend (2018)
- Aaron Bola, Class of '20 (2017)
- Mohammad Hubeishy, Class of '19 (2016)
- Sarah-Grace Anna Carbrey, Class of '18 (2015)
- Jesse Fodero III, Class of ’17 (2014)
- Vincent LaSala, Class of ’16 (2013)
- Joseph Thomas, Class of ’15 (2012)
- Michael Blanco, MD ’14 (2011)
- Andrew Farkas, MD ’11 (2010)
- Kelvin Gold, MD ’10 (2009)
- Ben Briggs, MD/PhD ’13 (2008)
- C. Kelvey Richards, MD ’08 (2007)
- Rebecca G. Taxier, MD ’07 (2006)
- Pamela J. Franks, MD ’06 (2005)
Marek B. Zaleski
This award was established in 1995 by Malgorzata and Jan Zaleski in honor of Marek B. Zaleski, a professor of microbiology who died in 1994. At Zaleski’s memorial service, second-year medical students presented the first Zaleski Award to a classmate they felt best exemplified the spirit of the Renaissance man or woman.
Contact For More Information
Assistant to the Chair
Caroline Golach
Senior Staff Assistant
Microbiology and Immunology