PhD candidate has been named a recipient of Vanderbilt’s , which “recognizes doctoral students who exhibit exceptional academic excellence in publications, awards, patents, and other forms of national or international distinction” with $2,500 in supplemental funding. Tu is first author of a recent paper in the prestigious Statistics in Medicine journal, as well as discussed in last month’s聽Journal of the International AIDS Society.聽Tu currently serves as secretary of the Biostatistics Graduate Student Association and has completed internships at Genetech and Amazon; she is also presently a research assistant with , the Caribbean, Central and South America network for HIV epidemiology.
