Kristen Hicks, a PhD student from Nutrition and Food Science Department at Texas A&M University, participated in the Pathways to the Doctorate Symposium in Corpus Christ, October22-23-2015 where she was awarded a First Place Prize for her poster in the Ph.D. Life Sciences category, and a Second Place Prize overall for the Ph.D. Category. Her poster title was ‘Physical nutrition program (PNEP): Physician Opinion Survey'.