CBMG Spotlight: Annual Award Ceremony - Spring 2022 - Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics

The Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics (CBMG) celebrated its annual Undergraduate and Graduate awards on May 11, 2022. Congratulations to all the CBMG recipients! To learn more about the students and their achievements, click here.

2022 undergraduate award winners

Ashley Weiss, Recipient of the CBMG Outstanding Student Award with her Mentor, Dr. Brantley Hall.

Abhirami (Ami) Thaivalappil, Recipient of CBMG Departmental Honors, with her Mentor, Dr. Kan Cao.

Molly Maranto, Recipient of CBMG Departmental Honors, with her Mentor, Dr. Sougata Roy

Aaron Lemmer, Recipient of the Arne P. Hansen Award for CBMG Honors Program Outstanding Thesis and Departmental High Honors, with his mentor Dr. Gilad Ofek.

Lizbeth Sanchez (left), recipient of the Norman Laffer Scholarship and Samantha Smith (right), recipient of the Appleman-Norton Award for Plant Biology with their mentor, Dr. Caren Chang.

initiates for the sigma alpha omicorn (Sao) microbiology honor society

Right to Left: Kevin Barnes (Senior, Microbiology), Carolyn Chen (Senior, Microbiology) with their SAO Faculty Advisor, Dr. Vincent Lee.

2022 graduate award winners

Philip Johnson, recipient of the Carroll E. Cox Award with his mentor, Dr. Anne Simon

Mary Chey, Recipient of the Isabel R. McDonald Service Award, with her mentor, Dr. Antony Jose

Ethan Iverson, Recipient of the Andrew J. Moyer Outstanding Graduate Student Award, with his mentor, Dr. Margaret Scull

Junghyun Rachel Kim, Recipient of the Wallace Prescott Rowe Award, with Dr. Jeffrey DeStefano.

Akshay Patel, Recipient of the Philip J. Provost Graduate Fellowship Award & Co-Recipient of the MOCB-BISI M. Zain-Ul-Abedin Memorial Scholarship, with his mentor, Dr. Sougata Roy

Zajeba Tabashsum, Co-Recipient of the MOCB-BISI M. Zain-Ul-Abedin Memorial Scholarship Award, with her mentor, Dr. Debabrata Biswas.

DIVERSTIY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION AWARDS

Fuxi Wang (Graduate), Recipient of the CBMG Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Recognition Award with DEI Co-Chairs, Dr. Charles Delwiche and Dr. Caren Chang.

Kevin Tu (Undergraduate), Recipient of the CBMG Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Recognition Award with his nominator, Dr. Jonathan Dinman.