Kate Coleman wins Graduate Fellow Award December 2, 2015 Congratulations to Kate Coleman (Jean Cook lab), who won the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Graduate Fellow Award in Basic Sciences.
John Runge receives McClendon-Thomas Award February 2, 2015 Congratulations to John Runge (Terry Magnuson lab), winner of the Bullit History of Medicine Club’s McClendon-Thomas Award. This award recognized scholarly excellence in the history of health sciences. John’s essay “Character Trials: Managing Epidemic Disease in the 19th Century American South” describes efforts to stop Yellow Fever from spreading across...
Christian Parobek awarded off-campus dissertation fellowship November 27, 2014 Christian Parobek (Jon Juliano lab) was awarded an Off-Campus Dissertation Research Fellowship by The Graduate School. Christian will work in Cambodia during Spring 2015 collecting mRNA from the malaria vector P. vivax for his dissertation research.
Jennifer Kulzer wins Cotterman Award for her Publication August 27, 2014 Congratulations to Jennifer Kulzer (Karen Mohlke lab), whose was selected as a winner of the Cotterman Award. This award is given annually by the American Society of Human Genetics, which selects two articles published in the American Journal of Human Genetics in the previous year that best represent outstanding scientific...
Noelle Romero receives Royster Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship April 25, 2014 Congratulations to Noelle Romero (labs of Steve Matson and Jeff Sekelsky), who was awarded a Royster Society of Fellows Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School for 2014-2015.
Lauren Wasson receives Dissertation Completion Fellowship April 25, 2014 Congratulations to Lauren Wasson (Frank Conlon lab), who was awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School for 2014-2015.
Kathryn Kohl runner up for Larry Sandler Award February 3, 2014 Congratulations to Kathryn Kohl (PhD 2013, Jeff Sekelsky lab) who was named runner up for the Larry Sandler Award. This award is given annually by the Genetics Society of America for the most outstanding dissertation in any area of Drosophila research. This year there were 23 nominations from around the...
Marta Charpentier and Laura Tollini win Kenan-Hobgood Award October 3, 2013 Marta Charpentier (Frank Conlon lab) and Laura Tollini (Yanping Zhang lab) were awarded the 2013 Sarah Graham Kenan-Edwards Hobgood Award. This honor is awarded each year to one or two outstanding students in the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology.
Nick Gomez receives travel award from AACR May 15, 2013 Congratulations to Nick Gomez (lab of Ian Davis), recipient of a 2013 American Association of Cancer Research Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Award for participation in the AACR Special Conference on Chromatin and Epigenetics in Cancer.
Marta Charpentier receives Dissertation Completion Fellowship May 15, 2013 Congratulations to Marta Charpentier (Frank Conlon lab), who was awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School for 2013-2014.
Kathryn Kohl receives Harold Weintraub Award February 11, 2013 Congratulations to Kathryn Kohl (Jeff Sekelsky lab) for winning the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement during graduate studies in the biological sciences. Recipients of this prestigious national award participate in a scientific symposium to be held this spring at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center...