Dr. Ruben Parra-Cardona, the CSW Roger and Carol Nooe Endowed Chair, was recently awarded the 2024 National Hispanic Science Network (NHSN) award, which recognizes an established scholar with a research trajectory that integrates science and practice. This award is reserved for scholars with a long-term research trajectory aimed at serving Latinx populations.
As a doctoral student in 2004, Parra-Cardona did not even know what the NIH meant and never imagined himself embracing a career as an academic in the U.S. Twenty years later, he was able to experience the “surreal feeling of holding the NSHN award in his hands” and recognizing the reality of it.