This is an excerpt from the Department of Epidemiology article.
Erica Lokken, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Epidemiology and former Strategic, Analysis, Research & Training (START) Center research assistant, was named a 2017-2018 Magnuson Scholar. Each year, the Magnuson Scholars Program recognizes one graduate student in each of the six UW Health Sciences schools who excels both in their academics and in research. Lokken and the five other students will each receive $30,000 toward their education in the 2017-2018 academic school year.
“I am incredibly honored to have been selected for the Magnuson Scholarship and full of gratitude toward my mentors and the selection committee,” Lokken says.
She will receive $30,000 to fund her research on the link between bacterial vaginosis and infertility, currently underway in Kenya.
Lokken previously worked as a research assistant with the Department of Global Health's Strategic, Analysis, Research & Training (START) Center, and she is currently setting up a study under Professor Scott McClelland (Epidemiology, Global Health, Medicine).