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CBS sportscaster Greg Gumbel will be here Monday to host a black-tie award ceremony where the March of Dimes honors two scientists for their pioneering research on the X and Y chromosomes.
Patricia Ann Jacobs, a professor of human genetics at Southampton University Medical School in England, and Dr. David Page, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor of biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will receive the $250,000 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology for a body of work that is leading to advanced prevention and treatments for some of the most serious birth defects and other human diseases.
The dinner event is at the Four Seasons Hotel Denver and will draw a crowd that includes the March of Dimes’ national president, Dr. Jennifer Howse, local and national medical professionals, business leaders and special friends of the March of Dimes. Admission is by invitation.
Hispanic Annual Salute.
A sixth-grade teacher who started a nonprofit food pantry, Feeding Minds/Enriching Lives, to meet the nutritional needs of children from low-income families, was honored at the 31st Hispanic Annual Salute. The dinner also was the occasion for HAS to award a $4,000 scholarship and laptop computer to 10 graduating high school seniors.
Alexandria Ralat started Feeding Minds/Enriching Lives after realizing how many of the Molholm Elementary School students ate their only meal of the day at school. Every Friday, she and a group of student volunteers load 51 boxes with a weekend’s worth of “nutritional necessities” for the families who qualify for the giveaway.
Ralat said the $1,000 stipend that comes with her award will be used to buy items for the food boxes.
The student award winners, chosen for their volunteer activities and good grades, were Melissa Altammirano, Jessica Bastian, Liliana Cabo and Erika Ruiz of Abraham Lincoln High School; Joseph Archuleta, Brittani Trevithick and Connor Levia of Pueblo South High School; Karla Flores of Skyview Academy; Melissa Munoz of Pomona High School; and Elliott Salazar of Durango High School.
This and that.
The Spirituals Project is having its spring concert, “They Slice the Air,” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Bethany Lutheran Church, 4500 E. Hampden Ave. Tickets are $18 at the door. . . . Martha Records and Rich Rainaldi are chairing the Museum of Contemporary Art’s springtime fiesta, Cuatro de Mayo, and encourage sign-ups at . . . . One of the best silent auctions around is the one for Mi Casa Resource Center’s annual Be Anything Luncheon. This year’s packages offer bidders the chance to Be a Denver apheerleader, Be a Zookeeper or Be a Rocky Mountain Rollergirl. The luncheon emceed by 7News morning anchor Ana Cabrera is set for 11:30 a.m. May 5 at Mile High Station; call 303-573-1302.
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