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Samithamby Jeyaseelan, DVM, '01 PhD, received the 2019 Rainmaker Award as a senior scholar in science, technology, engineering and mathematics from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La. The Rainmaker award recognizes his contributions to research in the area of innate immunity against pathogens as it relates to inflammation and injury in the lungs and extrapulmonary organs.