Michelle Valero, a Ph.D. student and recipient of the Louise and Michael Beldon Doctoral Scholarship
August 26th, 2009
Michelle Valero, a Ph.D. student in the UTSA College of Sciences neurobiology program is the second recipient of the Louise and Michael Beldon Doctoral Scholarship. The $5,000 merit-based scholarship goes to a Texas resident entering a UTSA doctoral program. 
Valero continues her studies at UTSA after receiving both her bachelor’s degree (2004) and her master of science degree (2008) in biology. In her Ph.D. program, she plans to continue her work investigating human hearing with the help of the marmoset primate, the world’s smallest monkey.
In her application essay, Valero detailed her research goals. “While completing my dissertation, I intend to continue using the common marmoset as a model for human hearing research,” she wrote. “Through this research, I plan to determine whether there are age-related effects on marmoset ototacoustic emissions (or sounds that the ear produces itself), auditory brain-stem responses and behavioral audiograms, all of which I will compare to normative data that I obtain.”
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