Sariah Khormaee, who will receive a bachelor's degree in neurobiology and biochemistry, has been named the President's Medalist — the outstanding student in this year's senior class on the basis of her overall academic record, including grades. She is majoring in neurobiology and biochemistry and will graduate with college honors.
Khoramee has received UW Undergraduate Scholar awards in 2002-3 and 2003-4. She also has received a Mary Gates Undergraduate Research Training Grant, the Zahlia-Jencks-Rowe Scholarship in Biochemistry, the Henley Honors Program Scholarship and the CRC Department of Chemistry Freshman Achievement Award. In 2005 she receved a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Grant. With all these achievements, she's also found time to perform in the UW Harp Ensemble.
After graduation, Khormaee will be a National Institutes of Health--Marshall Scholar in Biomedical Research, conducting research for two years at the Cambridge University School of Medicine as a full-time doctoral student in biomedical science. She also will spend about two years in a laboratory at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
Khormaee is planning to become a physician, specializing in ophthalmology. Her career plans include developing accessible and affordable treatments for curing blindness.