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Intro Biology Lab Coordinator and preparator Joanne Chaplin has won a Leonard W. Sandridge Outstanding Contribution Award! The 2018 award winners are highlighted in today's edition of UVA Today. "The Sandridge Awards are the highest honors the University gives to its employees.
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Associate Professor Sarah Kucenas' research has been highlighted in today's issue of UVA Today. Sarah uses zebrafish as her study model to gain insight into the nervous system. Her current research focuses on the glia, which are "key components in the development of the central and peripheral nervous systems.
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Associate Professor Martin Wu has received a $100,000.00 grant sponsored by the UVA Global Infectious Diseases Institute for research with Clostridium difficile. Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) poses a major healthcare burden to the global population and is the biggest antibiotic-resistant threat in the United States.
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Biology graduate student Omar Guessoum (Ariel Gomez lab) has won a pre-doctoral fellowship grant from the American Heart Association.
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The 34th Annual Richard D. Katz Undergraduate Research Symposium was held Wednesday, May 2, 2018. Nine Distinguished Major candidates presented their research projects. Also in attendance was the namesake of the symposium, Mr. Richard D. Katz himself. Award winners were:
1st place -- Cara Giordano
2nd place -- Emily Mace
3rd place -- Nayla Labban
Assistant Professor of Biology Ali Güler, winner of a 2018 All-University Teaching Award, is one of 13 award winners featured in the May 1 edition of UVA Today.
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Congratulations to Biology major Matthew Kustra (’18) for winning a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation! Matt, a member of the Cox lab, is conducting his Distinguished Majors Program research on the effects of fine-scale variation in population density and sex ratio on reproductive allocation and fitness in a wild population of Anolis lizards.
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Please join us in congratulating Cory Weller, Adam Huckaby, and Tyler Wittman in receiving GSPA Research and Travel awards!
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Anna Way, a graduate student in the O'Rourke lab, has been awarded a Jefferson Fellowship. The Jefferson Fellows Program "was established by the Foundation to recognize graduate students on Grounds who have made exceptional contributions to the University of Virginia, and who exhibit the highest promise as scholars, teachers, public servants, and leaders in the United States and beyond".
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Kimberly Arena, a graduate student in the Kucenas lab, has been awarded a Jefferson Fellowship. The Jefferson Fellows Program "was established by the Foundation to recognize graduate students on Grounds who have made exceptional contributions to the University of Virginia, and who exhibit the highest promise as scholars, teachers, public servants, and leaders in the United States and beyond".
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