The Katharine E. Welsh Fellowship in Immunology & Infectious Disease

The late Katharine Welsh, a protozoology student, established this fellowship in 1990. It provides support for an outstanding student in the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. When Ms. Welsh was studying Immunology and Zoology in the late 1920s, she was only one of four pioneering women to do so. She pursued a career with the Baltimore City Health Department Laboratories that spanned more than 35 years. Ms. Welsh began as a junior bacteriologist and was acting director when she retired.