BSPH student shares how Ohio State has brought him closer to achieving his dreams
Emanuel Tewolde, left, with his professor and mentor Min-Ae Song (photo: Corey Wilson).
Emanuel Tewolde didn’t have a second to relax. From the moment he set up his research poster at the Denman Research Forum, a steady stream of visitors came to him with questions.
He handled it all like a pro and was awarded a Denman runner-up honor for his research, which examined awareness gaps in central Ohio African American smokers to a proposed menthol cigarette ban.
Following that experience, he jetted to the International Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Conference in New Orleans, where he presented about two research studies he took part in as a student in the Min-Ae Song Lab. He then successfully defended his research thesis capstone project.
All in all, an impressive spring before he graduates in May. But instead of taking credit, Emanuel gives it all to his Ohio State mentors.
“Research changed the trajectory of my college career, it’s become the end-all for me,” says Emanuel, a public health major on a pre-med track. “In undergraduate, mentorship is everything. Your mentor is the reason you fall in love with research or you don’t.”
Read more about Emanuel’s College of Public health experience.
