Griffin Wright receives Edwin R. Hughes Memorial Award

Mary Townsley, Ph.D., senior associate dean of the
USA College of Medicine, presents the award to 

Griffin Wright.

Griffin Wright, a second-year student in the Basic Medical Sciences Graduate Program at the University Of South Alabama, is the recipient of the Edwin R. Hughes Memorial Award for the 2018-2019 academic award year. Mary Townsley, Ph.D., senior associate dean of the USA College of Medicine, presented a plaque and cash award to Wright on Aug. 15, 2019, at the new student orientation.

Wright graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Auburn University College of Agriculture in 2017. He is now concentrating on cancer biology in the Basic Medical Sciences Program at USA and is currently working under Dr. Natalie Gassman at the Mitchell Cancer Institute studying the response of DNA repair pathways following environmental exposures.

The award is named in memory of Edwin R. Hughes, who served as director of the Basic Medical Sciences Graduate Program at the USA College of Medicine from its inception in 1978 until 1990. The award recognizes the student with the best academic performance in the program’s core curriculum.