The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Awards Ceremony was held Thursday, May 6, to recognize a number of our faculty, undergraduate students, and graduate students for excellence in teaching, academics, and research.
The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Awards Ceremony was held Thursday, May 6, to recognize a number of our faculty, undergraduate students, and graduate students for excellence in teaching, academics, and research.
MCB Undergraduate Student and Graduate Student Awards
MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY AWARDS
Distinction Award
Elizabeth Berry Diana Lone
Josh Carleton Nga Man Julian Lui
Catherine Crosby Brendan Mulhern
Rachel Fiddler Amanda Park
Roveiza Irfan Leonid Serebryannyy
Vivian Lee Zayn Husain (Fall 2009)
High Distinction Award
Julie Jurgens
Benjamin Weber
Joseph Cates (Fall 2009)
Award for Best Senior Thesis
Julie Jurgens
Benjamin Weber
Joseph Cates (Fall 2009)
Outstanding Teaching Assistant
Xiaofeng Frank Huo
Surya Karunakaran
Margaret McCurdy
Michael Oliphant
Students Graduating with a Concentration in Molecular & Cellular Biology Honors
Meghan Angley Diana Lone
Catherine Crosby Nga Man Juliana Lui
John Davis Kevin McNerney
Rachel Fiddler Tarana Nekzad
Vivian Lee Branden Skarpiak
PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY AWARDS
Procter & Gamble Company
Undergraduate Student Research Award
Nina Hosmane
Chris Novotny
Procter & Gamble Company
Graduate Student Research Award
Seth Ament
Weixue Wang
Adil Anjem (Honorable Mention)
James Heeres (Honorable Mention)
Jeehae Park (Honorable Mention)
BIOCHEMISTRY AWARDS
Distinction Award
Jessica Luzwick
Nazihah Mohd Salehan
Julia Willett
High Distinction Award
Caitlin Heiderschedit
Charles Hespen
Kimberly Lavin
Christopher Novotny
Highest Distinction Award
Elliott Brea
Merck Index Award
Caitlin Heiderschedit
William T. and Lynn Jackson
Senior Thesis Award
Elliott Brea
William T. and Lynn Jackson Merit Award
Kimberly Lavin
Julia Willett
Thomas O. Sidebottom Award
Charles Hespen
Robert L. Switzer Award for Teaching
Elizabeth Marshall
Katherine McTavish
Samanthi Narayanan
Terry Sasser
Biochemistry Endowed Graduate Student Fellowships
Chad Gonzales (Gregorio Weber Fellowship)
Aaron Knowlton (Gregorio Weber Fellowship)
Abhinav Luthra (Herbert L. Carter Fellowship)
Katie Whalen (Keith R. Westcott Fellowship)
CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY AWARDS
Roderick MacLeod Award for Excellence
Amanda Park
Departmental Award for Distinguished Research
Julie Jurgens
Outstanding Teaching Assistant
Qian Liu
MICROBIOLOGY AWARDS
James R. Beck Undergraduate Award
Aaron Baessler
Nga Man Juliana Lui
Andrew Mariano
Francis M. and Harlie M. Clark Undergraduate
Research Excellence Award
Joshua Carleton
Eun Ik Koh
Brendan Powers
Helen Alford Hays Undergraduate
Research Award
Stephanie Czeschin
Harvey L. Pretula Memorial Undergraduate Research Award
Lucas Miller
Richard Yemm
Peter Diebold
Jordan Bloom
Dr. Walter and Loretta Zygmunt Undergraduate Research Award
Christian McNeely
James R. Beck Graduate Research Fellowship
Divya Balasubramanian (2nd Year Graduate Student)
Marcus Rushing (4th Year Graduate Student)
Ian Gut (5th Year Graduate Student)
Francis M. and Harlie M. Clark Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant
Yuka Bannai
Francis M. and Harlie M. Clark
Graduate Research Fellowship
Byoungkwan Kim
Ka Wai Kuong
Nicole Held
Amandeep Gargi
DeBoer Graduate Research Fellowship
Prashant Jain
Kristen Willis
Mame Shiao Debbie Graduate Award
Marcus Rushing
MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY AWARDS
Howard S. Ducoff Award for Best Senior Thesis
Rachel Fiddler
James E. Heath Award for Excellence
in Teaching in Physiology
Lori Raetzman
Outstanding Graduate Thesis Award
Wei Wang
Outstanding Contribution to
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Aurora Cruz Torres
C. Ladd Prosser Outstanding
Achievement Award
Catherine Crosby
NEUROSCIENCE PROGRAM AWARDS
C. Ladd Prosser Neuroscience Award
Samit Shah
Outstanding Research Award
Seth Ament
Outstanding Service Award
Molly Kent
Miri Kim
TEACHERS RANKED AS EXCELLENT
Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students for Molecular and Cellular Biology/Life Sciences and College of Medicine Courses Taught in Spring and Fall 2009 include students, academic professionals and faculty. We commend them all for their hard work and dedication to teaching and for sharing the joy of discovery with our next generation of scientists.
Pierre Achille
Lavanya Anandan
Jose Andrade
Devi Annamalai
Yuka Bannai
Michael Barnhart*
Michel Bellini
Genevieve Bitz*
Steven Blanke
Lisa Boucek*
Jo Ann Cameron
Jennifer Cash
Stephanie Ceman
Ivan Cerbin
Chio Mui Chan
Ann Cheever
Jie Chen
Milu Cherian
Jinny Cho
Jessica Chubiz*
Joel Cioni
Shane Crandall
Aurora Cruz Torres
Timothy Daugherty
James Davis
Susan Decker
Dylan Dodd
Amy Dunlap*
John Eichorst
Caitlyn Ejankowski
Stephen Farrand
Brian Freeman
Cory Funk
Amandeep Gargi*
Julie George
Mao-Feng Ger
Paul Gold
Vikram Goyal
Gail Grabner*
Jesse Grenz
Matthew Hamedani
Yuan He
Bill Helferich
Fatemah Hermes
Raven Huang
Merla Hubler
Basil Hussain
Cyril Jacquot
Nannan Jiang
Jesse Johnson*
Marinos Kalafatis*
Surya Karunakaran*
Carolyn Keeton
Stacy Kelley
Molly Kent
Byoungkwan Kim
Jennifer Kim
Miri Kim
Darrin King*
Donna Korol
Ka Wai Kuong
Kurt Kwast
Darson Lai
Joseph Laird
Jennifer Laprise*
Steven Lin*
Yanni Lin
Ruijie Liu
Steven Long*
Claudia Lutz
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan
Abigail Maley
Alex Maley
Elizabeth Marshall
Stefanie Martin
Margaret McCurdy*
Katherine McTavish
Brad Mehrtens*
Pavni Mehrotra
Esmail Meisami
William Metcalf
Michael Miles
Ken Morris
James Morrissey
Steven Mussman*
Shawna Naidu*
Samanthi Narayanan
Sarah Nixon
Ulai Noomnarm*
Michael Oliphant*
Jiyeon Park*
Supriya Gangadharan Prasanth
Lori Raetzman
Cyril Ramathal
Crystal Randall
Diana Ranoa
Tana Repella
Kenneth Ringwald
Angel Rivera
Marcus Rushing
Terry Sasser
Rudi Scharnweber
Zhen Shen
Zachary Shipp
Joanna Shisler
James Slauch*
Stephen Sligar
Carolina Soto
Charles Spelich
Joel Stary
Isaac Stewart*
Wamaitha Sullivan
Martha Sweeney*
Jessica Taibl*
Richard Tapping*
Kevin Teng*
Jerome Tiu
Kjirsten Walt
Alex Wang
Fei Wang
Ying Wang
Jillian Waters
Dixie Whitt*
Brenda Wilson*
Claudia Winograd
Cong Wu
Jian Zhang
David Zimmerman
*Ranked excellent 2 semesters in a row
**Group includes students, academic professionals and faculty.