CBMG Annual Student Awards 2015-2019

Spring 2019 CBMG Honors and Awards

Initiation of New Sigma Alpha Omicron (SAO)

Laura Maria Wilke, Anna B. Seminara, Emily Morgan, Avinaash Kaur Sandhu, Jason Lynch.

Recognition of CBMG Honors Students
Congratulations to our graduating CBMG Honors undergraduates for successfully defending their theses: Hannah Bress (Honors), Lyra Morina (Honors), Anna Seminara (High Honors), Uzair Ahtesham (Chang Lab), Jessica Kan (Mount Lab)

CBMG Outstanding Student Award

Hannah Bress
Berwin Yuan

Dr. Norman Laffer Scholarship

Emily Reagle
Alexandra Schneider

Graduate Student Awards

Carroll E. Cox Award: Custodio Nunes
Isabel R. McDonald Service Award: Rezia Era Braza
Andrew J. Moyer Award: Alex Sohr,
M. Zain-Ul-Abedin Memorial Scholarship Award: Rini Hartono Pek

Spring 2016 CBMG Honors and Awards

Recognition of CBMG Honors Students

Congratulations to our graduating CBMG Honors undergraduates for successfully defending their theses! Shane Falcinelli (Briken lab), Monika Looney (Jose lab), Charlotte Francoeur (Wu lab), Amelia Stephens (Winkler lab), Lakshmi Kirkire (Pick lab), Eric Zhou (Lee lab), Katie Metz (Delwiche lab), John Paul Ouyang (Chang lab).

Spring 2015 CBMG Honors and Awards

Dr. P. Arne Hansen Award for CBMG Honors Program Outstanding Thesis

Sarah Helman is graduating Magna Cum Laude in BSCI- Cell Biology & Genetics. She earned High Honors for her research in the lab of Dr. Vince Lee.

CBMG Outstanding Student Award

Evguenia Morgun is graduating Magna Cum Lauda in BSCI- Cell Biology & Genetics. She earned High Honors for her research in the lab of Dr. Najib El-Sayed.

CBMG Outstanding Student Award

Kai-Li Liang is graduating Magna Cum Laude in BSCI-Microbiology with a minor in Global Poverty. Kai earned High Honors for his research in the lab of Dr. Richard Stewart.

Appleman-Norton Award for Plant Biology

Ira Herniter is graduating in BSCI- Cell Biology & Genetics. He earned Honors for his research was in the lab of Dr. Zhongchi Liu.

Students completing CBMG Honors Research

Students completing their multiple semesters of research, seminars and honors thesis defense in the CBMG departmental honors program:

• Steven Klupt “Towards development of tools for live cell imaging of metabolite dynamics” (Dr. Winkler)
• Patrick Curry “Characterization of CpsY: A putative transcriptional regulator linked to virulence in group A Streptococcus (Dr. McIver)
• Ira Herniter “Determining the function of two novel microRNAs and the effect of GA on transformation in diploid strawberry Fragaria vesca (Dr. Liu)
• Michael Kleymen “Using Machine Learning to Analyze Splicing Signals in Plants” (Dr. Mount)

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistants

Undergraduate students who served as undergraduate teaching assistants were recognized for their multi-term service and excellence in teaching: MyLinh Vu, Nick Todd, Myrissa Carter and Will Still

Initiates for the Sigma Alpha Omicron Microbiology Honor Society

Naomi Cole, Shane Falcinelli, Erin McCaffrey, Suk-Jun Moon, Theresa Katharina Talalai