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Thursday, June 4, 2015
UHV students awarded scholarships for admission test preparation courses
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| University of Houston-Victoria students Annie Lee, third from left, and Alba Sanchez, third from right, receive certificates for full scholarships to pay for test preparation courses. The scholarships were awarded by the university’s Pre-Health Student Association and sponsored by Kaplan and Princeton Review. Lee, a post-baccalaureate student from Port Lavaca, who graduated in May 2014 with a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas in Austin, is preparing to take the Dental Admission Test. Sanchez, a senior biology major from Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, will take the Medical College Admission Test. Standing from left are Dmitri Sobolev, assistant professor of biology; Maria Velez-Hernandez, assistant professor of biology; Lee; Jeffrey Di Leo, dean of the UHV School of Arts & Sciences; Sanchez; Jesica McCue, biology lecturer; and Hashimul Ehsan, biology lecturer. Velez-Hernandez and McCue are co-advisors of the student organization. |
The University of Houston-Victoria, located in the heart of the Coastal Bend region, offers courses leading to more than 65 bachelor’s and master’s degree
programs and concentrations in the schools of Arts & Sciences, Business Administration, Education & Human Development, and Nursing. UHV provides face-to-face
classes at its Victoria campus as well as teaching sites in Fort Bend and Harris counties, and online classes that students can take from anywhere. Since its
founding in 1973, UHV has provided students with a quality university education from excellent faculty at an affordable price.