PhD student Melanie Kok earns Pan Am silver medal

Melanie Kok, a PhD Student in the Graduate Neuroscience Program at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry rowed to a silver medal at the Pan Am Games in Guadalajara, Mexico earlier today. The medal was earned in the Womens Quad Scull competition.

Melanie is an Olympian and earned a Bronze Medal at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing China in 2008 in the Womens Double Scull. She is working on her doctorate in Dr. Stephen Lomber's lab in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology.

http://guadalajara.olympic.ca/results/?sport_results=Rowing

Thumbnail photo courtesy of Guadalajara 2011 Pan Am Games