Erin Weatherford Receives Scheving Award

By Holland Doran

Dec. 16, 2014 | UAMS first-year medical student Erin Weatherford has received the Lawrence E. Scheving Award, recognizing her for receiving the highest grade in the course called Human Structure in 2014.

Weatherford, of Dumas, daughter of Doug and Linda Weatherford, was honored during a Dec. 11 ceremony led by David Davies, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences in the UAMS College of Medicine, and Robert Burns, Ph.D., professor in the department.

Weatherford, who will graduate in 2018, was given a framed certificate, a monetary honorarium and her name was added to the Scheving Award memorial plaque.

“I’m very honored and humbled to have received this award when I know that everyone in my class is intelligent and extremely hard working,” Weatherford said. “I would like to thank the Human Structure faculty and my classmates because we all learned from each other throughout the course.”

The Scheving award was established on behalf of the late Lawrence E. Scheving, Ph.D., the first Rebsamen professor of anatomical science. He served as director of the gross anatomy course for 15 years and was a UAMS College of Medicine faculty member for 20 years until his retirement in 1990. Friends and colleagues who established the award in 2004 described Scheving as an outstanding teacher and researcher with an international reputation.