<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-events/downstate-update/digest/issue-06/downstate-medical-student-earns-scholarship.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><categories>College of Medicine</categories><pubDate>08/27/2026 02:00:00 PM</pubDate><title>Downstate Medical Student Earns National Nutrition in Medicine Scholarship</title><sub-title/><description>Samantha Zinman, a third-year student in the College of Medicine, represented Downstate at the International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine, held earlier this month in Washington, D.C. Conference organizers selected Samantha as one of 21 medical students nationwide to receive an ICNM scholarship. </description><author>Office of Communications &amp; Marketing</author><image><img xmlns:ouc="http://omniupdate.com/XSL/Variables" src="https://www.downstate.edu/news-events/downstate-update/digest/issue-06/_images/zimran-story-1.jpg" alt="Samantha Zinman"/></image><loc>/var/staging/oucampus/suny-downstate/downstate/news-events/downstate-update/digest/issue-06/downstate-medical-student-earns-scholarship.xml</loc><tags><tag>College of Medicine</tag></tags><categories><category>College of Medicine</category></categories></item>