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Diana M. Morlote |
Dillon Arango |
Hanadys Ale |
MIAMI (August 12, 2009) – Three out the six FIU graduates in the inaugural class of the FIU Wertheim College of Medicine are Honors College graduates. Hanadys Ale, Dillon Arango and Diana M. Morlote were chosen from a pool of 3,332 applicants. Hanadys, a biology major, was born in Havana, Cuba. Inspired by her grandmother, she decided to become a doctor from an early age. In Cuba she studied at the Superior Institute of Medical Studies in Havana for two years before coming with her family to the United States in 2003. Hanadys graduated with an AA in biology from Miami Dade College and later came to FIU and joined the Honors College. After graduating from FIU in the spring of 2008, Hanadys worked as a science teacher at Hialeah Gardens High School.
Dillon Arango was born in Miami but moved to Colombia at the age of 11 with his parents, who were missionaries. He returned to Miami five years later. Dillon began attending FIU as a high school student in the dual enrollment and early admissions program. Dillon was a chemistry major who was also very active in the Honors College’s Student Research and Artistic Initiatives Program (SRAI). In 2008 he presented a paper at the SRAI conference titled “Locating Binding Sites of RNA Polymerase Using Restriction Enzymes” under the mentorship of Dr. Stephen Winkle.
Diana M. Morlote was born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba. She and her family came to the United States in 2003 after living in the Dominican Republic for six years. Diana knew she wanted to be a doctor after watching her cardiologist father work with patients at his clinic in Cuba. The biology major had a 4.0 grade point average and co-authored a paper on “Genetic Insights into the Origins of Tibeto-Burman Populations in the Himalayas,” published in the Journal of Human Genetics, under the mentorship of FIU geneticist Rene Herrera.
For immediate release
CONTACT: Juan Carlos Espinosa, The Honors College
(305-348-4100), espinosj@fiu.edu
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