*** Chelsea Specht receives the 2008 Prytanean faculty award from the Prytanean Alumni Society.
(more on the Prytanean faculty award )
Graduate Honors:
*** Madelaine Bartlett receives an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant.
*** Tanya Renner receives an NSF predoctoral fellowship for her research on the evolution of carnivory and chitinase enzymes.
Undergraduate Honors:
*** Laura Lagomarsino (GPB '08) receives the Melis Medal, the highest honor for undergraduate research in CNR.
*** Laura Lagomarsino & Claudia Henriquez graduate from CNR with honors degrees.
*** Sarah Starkey & Jennifer Bartlau graduate from CNR with outstanding undergraduate research records.
*** Irene Liao (GPB '09) receives a Smithsonian RTP fellowship for summer 2008.
Fall 2008
Graduate Honors:
*** Madelaine Bartlett receives a 2008 National Research Foundation / South African Biosystematics Initiative Scholarship.
*** Madelaine Bartlett is invited to participate in an NSF-sponsored symposium on Plant Morphology & Evolution (MORPH).
*** Ana Almeida receives a Fulbright Fellowship. She will start doctoral research on floral development in Richterago (Asteraceae).
Undergraduate Honors:
*** Sarah Starkey, Claudia Henriquez, & Laura Lagomarsino receive 2,000 each for their student-initiated research project (SPUR).
Spring 2007
Graduate Honors:
*** Madelaine Bartlett wins the Vernon I. Cheadle Award (BSA, Development Section).
Undergraduate Honors:
*** Sankar Sridaran (MEB '07) receives the Melis Medal for outstanding presentation of his honors thesis research.
*** Yizhuo Wang (MCB '07) receives an award for outstanding poster at the MCB Honor's symposium.
*** Sankar, Yizhuo & Hillary Cooper (Microbiology '07) graduate with Honors.
*** Laura Lagomarsino receives a 2007 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship & a Smithsonian RTP fellowship.
Spring 2006
Undergraduate Honors:
*** Laura Lagomarsino (GPB '08) receives a Nathan and Violet David Scholars Award.