Graduate Student Yesmar Oyarzun Awarded NSF Award

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Yesmar Oyarzun, Rice Anthropology Graduate Student, has been awarded an NSF award for her research on dermatology residents in the US. Dermatology has recently been reckoning with a lack of resources on and awareness of skin diseases experienced by people with dark skin. Yesmar's research explores how residents learn to see and treat skin diseases in this context.

Link: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2044020&HistoricalAwards=false