2017 - 2018 HONORS AND AWARDS
Retiring and conferred with emeritus status |
Fred Benfield, Khidir Hilu |
Years of Employment |
John Tyson (40 years) |
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Erik Nilsen, Dreama Price (35 years) |
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Brenda Winkel (25 years) |
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Zhaomin Yang (15 years) |
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Lori Blanc (10 years) |
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES FACULTY AND STAFF AWARDS
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Outstanding Undergraduate Advising |
Jack Evans |
Outstanding Research Award |
Cayelan Carey, Dana Hawley |
Outstanding Service Award |
Michael Fox, Kendra Sewall |
Outstanding Teaching Award |
Rick Jensen, Ignacio Moore, Stephanie Voshell |
Staff Excellence Award |
Kenny Smith |
OTHER FACULTY AWARDS |
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Sloan Research Fellowship |
Frank Aylward |
Yentsch-Schindler Early Career Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography |
Cayelan Carey |
William E. Wine Award for Teaching Excellence |
Ann Stevens |
| College of Science Certificate of Teaching Excellence Award | Mary Lipscomb |
College of Science Diversity Award |
Greg Valdez |
ICTAS Junior Faculty Award |
Frank Aylward, Kendra Sewall |
Excellence in Access and Inclusion Award from VT Services for Students with Disabilities |
Joseph Falkinham, Mike Rosenzweig |
VT “Favorite Faculty” |
Mary Lipscomb, Mike Rosenzweig |
GRADUATE STUDENT AND POSTDOC AWARDS |
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College of Science Outstanding Master’s Student |
Spencer Bell (Brown Lab) |
| Outstanding Graduate Student Service Excellence Award and Edward Carney Predictive Toxicology Award for Poster Presentation, ASCCT Annual Meeting | Ellen Garcia (Cimini Lab) |
Outstanding Dissertation Award, STEM Category |
Skylar Hopkins (Belden Lab) |
College of Science “Make a Difference” Scholarship |
Nicole Ward (Carey Lab) |
College of Science “Make a Difference” Scholarship (Runner-Up) |
David Millican (Walters Lab) |
American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship |
Patrick Calhoun (Smyth Lab) |
American Ornithological Society’s Joseph Grinnell Research Award |
Jessica Hernandez (Moore Lab) |
Annie Liberati Memorial Scholarship |
Katherine Broadway (Scharf Lab), An Duong (Stevens Lab) |
Arthur Buikema and M. Alison Galway Outstanding GTA Award |
Andrew Muchlinski (Tholl Lab) |
David W. and Lillian Francis Research Fellowship |
Udaya Sree Datla (Jones Lab) |
Graduate Research Excellence - RC Lewontin Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution |
Kerry Gendreau (McGlothlin Lab), Jessica Hernandez (Moore Lab) |
John Palmer Memorial Scholarship |
Ariel Leon (Hawley Lab) |
Karen DePauw Outstanding Presentation Award, IGC Graduate Research Symposium 1st Place Oral Presentation Award and the Mary and George Schaeffer Stream Ecology Award |
Ryan McClure (Carey Lab) |
IGC Graduate Research Symposium 2nd Place Oral Presentation Award |
Tamara Fetters (McGlothlin Lab) |
IGC Graduate Research Symposium 3rd Place Oral Presentation Award |
Ernie Osburn (Barrett Lab) |
VA Lakes and Watershed Assoc. Leo Bourassa Award |
Mary Lofton (Carey Lab) |
| Noel Krieg Graduate Fellowship | Jessica Hernandez (Moore Lab), Wen Xiong (Capelluto Lab) |
Lab on a Chip/Royal Society for Chemistry Poster Prize, Society for Leukocyte Biology Annual Meeting |
Brittany Boribong (Jones Lab) |
Lewis Edward Goyette Graduate Fellowship |
Floricel Gonzalez (Scharf Lab), Jordan Mancl (Schubot Lab) |
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mentions |
Samuel Lane (Sewall Lab), Chloe Moore (Mims Lab) |
Raymond Huey Best Student Presentation Award Finalists, Division of Ecology and Evolution, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology |
Brooke Bodensteiner (Muñoz Lab), Vinny Farallo (Muñoz Lab) |
Robert and Marion Paterson Scholarship |
Fadoua El Moustaid (Johnson Lab), Tuo-Xang Tang (Capelluto Lab) |
Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Award, NIH |
Carissa James (Smyth Lab) |
Sigma Xi Research Awards |
Phil McElmurray (Brown Lab), Andrew Muchlinski (Tholl Lab) |
Society for Freshwater Science Endowment Award |
Brynn O’Donnell (Hotchkiss Lab), Stephen Plont (Hotchkiss Lab) |
Society for Research on Biological Rhythms Merit Research Award |
Xianlin Zou (Finkielstein Lab) |
Trainee Award for Oral Presentation, 1st Annual Commonwealth of VA Cancer Research Conference |
Katherine Broadway (Scharf Lab) |
Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience |
Aboozar Monavarfeshani (Fox Lab) |
| VT Graduate School Citizen Scholar | Fadoua El Moustaid (Johnson Lab) |
Research Day 2018 Invited Student Speakers |
Jingren Deng (Lazar Lab), Ariel Leon (Hawley Lab), Daniel Medina (Belden Lab), Tuo-Xian Tang (Capelluto Lab) |
Research Day 2018 First Place Breakout Talk |
Nicole Ward (Carey Lab) |
Research Day 2018 Second Place Breakout Talk |
Maya Wilson (Walters Lab) |
Research Day 2018 Third Place Breakout Talk |
Carl Wepking (Barrett/Strickland Labs) |
Research Day 2018 First Place Poster |
Patrick Calhoun (Smyth Lab) |
Research Day 2018 Second Place Poster |
Jessica Hernandez (Moore Lab) |
Research Day 2018 Third Place Poster |
Kerry Gendreau (McGlothlin Lab) |
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS |
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Goldwater Fellowship, Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Award, GE Women’s Network Scholarship from the Soc. of Women Engineers, German Club Rising Jr. Leadership Award, NOAA Hollings Scholarship, COS Luther and Alice Hamlett Undergraduate Research Scholarship, Deborah Koller Scholarship, Outstanding Winner of the 2018 Mathematical Contest in Modeling |
Arianna Krinos |
College of Science Outstanding Senior Award and Arthur Buikema and M. Alison Galway Outstanding Sr. Award |
Tyler Miller |
Arthur Buikema and M. Alison Galway Outstanding Sr. Researcher Award and Deborah Koller Scholarship |
Philip Stauffer |
VT Aspire! Award (Civility) and Cincinnatus Award from the VT Corps of Cadets |
Brian Kehs |
I.D. Wilson Memorial Scholarship |
Natalie Bale, Emily Poteat |
Joe and Barbara Cowles Scholarship |
Steve Nguyen |
Rachael Hill Memorial Scholarship |
Jordan Selep, Jesse Pinkman |
Ralph E. Carlson Memorial Freshman Scholarship |
Jayali Samarasinghe |
Ralph Carlson Memorial Scholarship in Ornithology |
Catherine Hucul |
Robert Jones Undergraduate Research Excellence Award |
Evan Littleton |
Steger Poetry Prize Finalist |
Nima Trivedi |
Stephen D. Lutz Scholarship |
Isabella Kim |