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<Title>Benyam Kinde &#8217;10, Biological Sciences, Named Gilliam Fellow</Title>
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    <p>Benyam Kinde ’10, biological sciences, is one of 10 students in 2011 to be named a Gilliam Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Kinde, who was UMBC’s 2010 valedictorian and a member of the 18th cohort of the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, is in the Harvard-MIT combined MD-PhD Program.</p>
    <p><a href="http://www.hhmi.org/grants/individuals/gilliam.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Read more about the award here.</a></p>
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<Summary>Benyam Kinde ’10, biological sciences, is one of 10 students in 2011 to be named a Gilliam Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Kinde, who was UMBC’s 2010 valedictorian and a...</Summary>
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