department awards

June 2008

Dr. Allan Spradling Wins 2008 Gruber Genetics Prize!

January 2008

Elcin Unal, who recently earned her Ph.D. degree from the CMDB Program, has been awarded the 2008 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award.

September 2007

Dr. Karen Beemon, Chair of Biology, has been awarded the 2007 Retrovirology Prize for her research on avian retroviral gene expression and oncogenesis.

RosaLinda Miyares has been awarded an NRSA from NIDDK. Congratulations!

October 2007

Lymarie Maldonado-Baez has been chosen to speak at SACNAS. Congratulations!

June 2007

Dave Martinelli won the 1st and Jill Weyers - the 2nd prizes at the poster competition at a major international meeting of the Developmental Biology Societies of North America, Latin America and Mexico (plus others from around the world). Nicole Crnkovich was selected for a talk at the meeting. Congratulations!

December 2006

Congratulations to the winners of the Dupont Teaching Awards!

The winners are:

Ashley Bushey - Genetics
Megan Cleland - Biochemistry
Julio Castenada - General Biology
Johanna Withers - Genetics

September 2006

Maria Matos, Hattar Lab has been awarded an NRSA grant for three years for her project titled, ‘Retinal photoreceptors in the non-image visual system’. Congratulations to Maria and Samer!

Elissa Lei, a postdoctoral fellow in the Corces lab, has accepted a faculty position as a tenure-track Investigator in the Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), NIH. Elissa will be leaving us for the NIH in Bethesda at the end of August.

July 2006

Tiara Booker is another new Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow. Administered by the National Research Council (NRC) under a grant from the Ford Foundation, this fellowship provides three years of support with an annual stipend. Congratulations Tiara!

Mark Teaford, a Professor in the Center for Functional Anatomy & Evolution at the School of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biology received The Professors' Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Med School Commencement last month.

June 2006

Dupont Teaching Awards for Spring 2006 have been awarded to Gayani Weerasinghe for General Biology, Courtney Akitake and Nicole Crnkovich for Developmental Biology and Jill Heidinger for Cell Biology. Congratulations to all!

May 2006

Sophomore research assistant Hanano Watanabe of the Integrated Imaging Center is the recipient of a  2006 Summer Provost's Undergraduate Research Award for her proposal entitled “Examination of EGF Receptor Clustering in A431 Cells: A Molecular Approach and Analysis using Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) and Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (ESEM).   Many congratulations to Hanano, as well as Ned Perkins who will advise and assist Hanano in this most interesting  correlative approach in evaluating the efficacy of utilizing ESEM as a tool for analyzing protein distribution in membranes.

April 2006

Robyn Goodman and David McNeill are the winners of a Dupont Teaching Award for Fall 2005 in Genetics. Congratulations!


February 2006

Congratulations to our three graduate students who won teachings awards for this past semester. Lori Orosco won the Dupont Teaching Award for Fall 2005 for General Biology. Casey Hemmis and Amber Hartman were co-recipients for Biochemistry for Fall 2005.

January 2006

Abbie Casper and Jennifer Barrila have been awarded a 2006-2007 Dean's Teaching Fellowship.  Congratulations to you both!


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