Awards
- Bicentennial Medal - 2019
About Janice L. Farlow
Janice Farlow is an alumna of IU Bloomington and served as the student trustee for the IU Board of Trustees. Farlow earned a B.S. in biology and B.A. with an individualized program in romance languages from IU Bloomington, and a M.D./Ph.D. from the IU School of Medicine. She was appointed in 2013 to the IU Board of Trustees by then Governor Mike Pence.
Farlow was a Herman B. Wells Scholar during her undergraduate career, as well as a member of the Board of Aeons, March of Dimes National Youth Council, Circle K International, Alpha Chi Sigma, and the Asian American Association. While at the School of Medicine, she served in the following positions: executive president of the Medical Student Council, member of the Administrative Review Committee for Dean of the school, student representative on the Curriculum Council Steering Committee, and student lead on the Independent Student Analysis Committee of the Accreditation Self-Study Task Force. During her time on the Board, she served as a member of the IU Bicentennial Steering Committee.
Farlow was recognized as Phi Beta Kappa and a Founder's Scholar, received a Hutton Honors College Research Grant and a Hutton Honors College/Individualized Major Program Capstone Award, won the Norton-Mavor Classical Studies Prize, and was named a Presidential Scholar. In graduate school she received a Clinical Translational Sciences Institute Pre-Doctoral Training Grant, a Wells Graduate Fellowship, and a Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship, and was named to the Gold Humanism Honor Society. She also won the Excellence in Public Health Award from the United States Public Health Service, the Dr. Charles R. Bantz Award for Excellence at IUPUI, the American Medical Association Foundation Leadership Award, the Class of 1985 and Todd B. Taylor Leadership Award, and the IU School of Medicine William M. Plater Civic Engagement Medallion.
Farlow received the IU Bicentennial Medal in September 2019 in recognition of her service as a student trustee for the IU Board of Trustees.