Son received a Vertical Flight Foundation scholarship through the American Helicopter Society at their Annual International Forum in Virginia Beach earlier in May. There were 22 recipients nationwide, but only 6 of these were undergrads. He was the lone UA student of the 22 awards; other schools included biggies like Georgia Tech, Penn State, U of Maryland, Rensselaer, MIT, Texas A&M, Wash U, and Oregon State. Coming from UA (“where?!”) was a definite talking point throughout the dinner.
He also was awarded recently the Madeline Keaton Cuniff Aviation Scholarship (through the Greater NY Chapter of the UA’s National Alumni Association). Wow! The story about Madeline Cuniff is a special and interesting one, and I encourage people to read about her here: https://lgcabral.files.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2011/05/cuniff.pdf . Madeline was the world’s first trans-Atlantic air stewardess; she also held a private sea-plane license. A real pioneer! She remained an ambassador for The University long after graduating there in 1935. She died in 2000, but her legacy lives on through this scholarship, no doubt. I know my son is honored to have been chosen.
So, I can’t resist a big ol’ “Roll, Pitch, Yaw Tide!” for UA’s AEM Dept.
Son has completed his first year of graduate school at University of Minnesota in Biomedical Engineering. He will work this summer at the VA Hospital in Minneapolis, continuing the work he started as part of CBH at Bama. His Bama lab mates presented at the Design of Medical Devices on UMN campus this past April, just as my son did two years ago, where he met his current research colleagues. He was thrilled to get to see them again. So grateful for the opportunities he had at Bama as part of CBH to help him realize his lifelong dream to work in the biomedical engineering field.
I was grateful for a PM that I received a few days before my son took the Step I exam. This parent shared with me her own son’s experience. Her son was so shook up by the difficulty of the test that he literally felt sick during and after the test…but when he got his score, he did very well.
The exam literally throws everything at you, so there’s going to be stuff that you just don’t know.
I shared this mom’s story with my son before he took his exam so that if he felt overwhelmed during the test not to feel discouraged. When the exam was over, he did feel discouraged but he remembered those shared words…which probably helped him keep his sanity during the test!
My son just started his second year at UVA Law. He spent the first two weeks of the semester interviewing for all kinds of internships for next summer. That’s right. You try to secure your internship before the semester really starts to roll. He just received word that he got an offer from a top-50 national firm. He has a few weeks before all the offers are in, but he is quite excited. He also received a fellowship and a teaching assistantship from two different law professors, He plans to do the TA job. It will give him some pocket money.
Ah mom2ck & momreads, old friends. I was about to delete this app. Congrats on your sons’ achievements.
I thought I would post that my S got a fantastic job in NYC within a week of graduation, as soon as he could fly home & have a couple of interviews. He is happily living on the Upper East Side. He graduated from Culverhouse from their Professional Sales program. So for those concerned about going to school far from where you want to work & live, Alabama is what you make of it. Roll Tide!
