Ayah Nuriddin Wins the 2024 Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Award

Ayah Nuriddin, assistant professor in the Section of the History of Medicine, was awarded The Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Early Career Development award at this year's American Association o the History of Medicine conference held in Kansas City, Missouri in May. The award and stipend of $1,000 is given yearly for outstanding work in twentieth-century history of medicine or medical biomedical sciences, as demonstrated by the completion of the Ph.D. and a proposal to turn the dissertation into a publishable monograph. Dr. Nuriddin will use the award towards the preparation of her eagerly awaited monograph project on Black eugenics.