Calvin Thigpen

Samuel "Calvin" Thigpen was the male winner of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's highest academic honor, the 1999 Walter Byers Award, in recognition of being the nation's top male scholar-athlete. [cite web|url=http://www1.ncaa.org/membership/scholarships/byers/winner_list|title=Previous Walter Byers Scholars|accessdate=2008-01-26|publisher=The National Collegiate Athletic Association] Thigpen became a Rhodes Scholar, [cite web|url=http://www.rhodesscholar.org/win99.html|title=Recently Elected U.S. Rhodes Scholars|accessdate=2008-01-26|publisher=rhodesscholar.org] and he returned to obtain is M.D. at University of Mississippi School of Medicine. In Medical School Thigpen was president of his medical school class and received the Medical Student of the Year award. [cite web|url=http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/chancellor/renaissance/ttss.html|title=Top Student Scholars|accessdate=2008-01-26|publisher=olemiss.edu] He obtained his M.D. in 2005. [cite web|url=http://www.olemiss.edu/alumni/notable/scholars.html|title=The University of Mississippi: Notable Scholars|accessdate=2008-01-26|publisher=University of Mississippi Alumni Association]

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