97-07-21 Shoji Wins Student Recognition Award

SHOJI WINS STUDENT RECOGNITION AWARD

     COLUMBUS -- Isao Shoji of HILLIARD, a senior with a double
major in Chinese and molecular genetics, has won the Ohio State
University Board of Trustees Student Recognition Award. The award
was presented during the July 11 meeting of the board.

     Shoji was honored for his work as a volunteer at the Arthur
G. James Cancer Hospital, and as an honors peer mentor helping
incoming honors students to adjust to a university setting.
Shoji is a Japanese tutor, sings in the Men’s Glee Club and
Symphonic Choir, and is a member of the Sphinx Senior Honorary.

     “I am honored to have been selected to receive this reward.
I thank all of my high school teachers and advisers, as well as
my college professors, who are the reason I am what I am today,”
Shoji said.

     The 1994 valedictorian of Hilliard High School, Shoji is the
son of Minori and Shuneki Shoji, 5057 Stonecroft Court.  He is
scheduled to graduate from Ohio State in June 1998 and plans to
attend medical school.  He hopes to pursue a career in pediatrics
or general medicine.

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Contact: Tracy Turner, University Communications, (614) 688-3682.


[Submitted by: Von Vargas  (vargas.12@osu.edu)
               
Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:44:47 -0400 (EDT)]
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