October 20, 2000

SMU GRADUATE RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS MEDICAL SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP

DALLAS (SMU) -- Joseph R. Berger, a 2000 graduate of Southern Methodist University, is one of five students from across the country to receive a medical school scholarship from Alpha Epsilon Delta, the premedical honor society. Berger was awarded the Moore Scholarship for Region IV of Alpha Epsilon Delta.

Berger, who lives in Farmers Branch, Texas, served two terms as president of the Texas Kappa Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta at SMU and was named Outstanding Senior Scientist at SMU's all-university Honors Ceremony last spring.

At SMU, he was both a National Merit Scholar and an SMU President's Scholar. He had a 4.0 GPA with a double major in biology and chemistry and a minor in ethics. Berger also worked for two summers as a Collegiate Fellow at Parkland Memorial Hospital.

"Joseph's excellence in science and other disciplines at SMU, his outstanding leadership as president of the Texas Kappa Chapter of AED and his genuine interest in humanity, as well as the life of the mind, earned him this high honor," said SMU Biology Professor Christine E. Buchanan, Berger's faculty adviser at SMU.

Berger is now attending the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas.