\Five UTMB School of Nursing faculty members recently received Excellence in Nursing Awards from the Good Samaritan Foundation, award winners were Thomas Mendez, Yolanda Davila, Maureen Wilder, Jacque Svoboda and Rebeka Watson – Campbell – UTMB student Justin Drake have been appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott as the student regent from the University of Texas System – Dr. Slobodan Paessler, a professor in the department of pathology, had been appointed by the National Institutes of Health as a member of the Virology B Study Section, Center for Scientific Review. Paessler was chosen because he demonstrated competence and achievement in his scientific discipline – Dr. Mariano Garcia – Blanco’s research findings on the Dengue virus were recently published in Science.