Oscar Cabrera, a candidate for the Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from the lab of Associate Professor Tim Megraw, is the 2012 recipient of FSU’s Wilson-Auzenne Graduate Student Assistantship for Minorities. The award is given annually to a minority graduate student at Florida State who shows great promise in his/her chosen field.

Cabrera was nominated by the College of Medicine’s Department of Biomedical Sciences, and competed against graduate students nominated by colleges throughout the university. He will receive a $5,000 student teaching stipend, tuition waivers and a health insurance subsidy.

In 2011, FSU awarded the Wilson-Auzenne Assistantship to Janel Rodriguez, a biomedical sciences Ph.D. candidate from the lab of Associate Professor Jamila Horabin.