Congratulations to the recent Biological Sciences Award Recipients!

2007 Graduate Award Winners
(Left to Right)
Back Row: Joshua Broussard, Robert Taylor
Front Row: Scott Egan, Eric Warren
Not Pictured: Elizabeth Thatcher, Jimann Shin


Hickory Stick Award  presented to Scott Egan who has exemplified outstanding teaching assistance.


Gisela Mosig Best Presenter Award presented to Eric Warren & Elizabeth Thatcher for the best presentations at the Department of Biological Sciences Annual Retreat.


Ann Bernard Martin Award presented to graduate student Robert Taylor, who has demonstrated exceptional promise in research and scholarly activities in the early stages of his graduate career in Biological Sciences.


Graduate Research Excellence Award presented to Jimann Shin who has shown outstanding performance in achieving research goals.


2007 Graduate Retreat Best Poster Award presented to Joshua Broussard


Graduate Awards

Gisela Mosig Best Presenter Award 
This award is presented annually to to the best presenter at the Vanderbilt University Department of Biological Sciences Annual Retreat
2007
  • Eric Warren and Elizabeth Thatcher

2006
  •        Jennell Talley and Christina Speirs

2005
  • Christopher G. Brown
2004
  • David J. Willls "Chloroplast SSR polymorphisms and the mode of organellar inheritance in Sunflower"
  • Jing Xiao  "Domain function analysis of Swa2p in clathrin dynamics" 
2003
  • Stephanie Whitson


Hickory Stick Award
This award is presented annually to a graduate student who has done an outstanding job at Teaching Assistance.

2007
  • Scott Egan

2006
  • Xiaoming Zhou

2005
  • Natasha Sherman
  • Jennifer Osterhage
  • Karen McFarland

2004

  • Alex Flynt


Ann Bernard Martin Award
This award is presented annually to a graduate student who has demonstrated exceptional promise in research and scholarly activities in the early stages of his/her graduate career in Biological Sciences.
2007
  •  Robert Taylor

2006
  •        Eric Warren

2005
  • Tan Lu

2004

  • Jinman Shin



Biological Sciences Annual Retreat Best Poster Award

2007
      
  •  Morgan Sammons
2006
  • Morgan Sammons

2005
  • Corey Snelson


  • Graduate Student Research Excellence Award in Biological Sciences
  • This award is presented annually to a graduate student of at least third year status who has performed outstanding and scholarly research over a sustained period of his/her tenure in the Department of Biological Sciences.

  • 2007 Jimann Shin
  • 2006 Chunyue Yin
  • 2005 Jinming Gu
  • 2004 Jinming Gu
  • 2003  Nicholas Trotta
  • 2002 Florence L. Marlow and Zhaolin Hua
  • 2001 John K. Wilkinson and Walter E. Gall
  • 2000 Daron C. Barnar
  • 1999 Utz Herbig
  • 1998 Chorng- Horng Lin and DeAnne S. Olsen
  • 1994 Brian Keplinger
  • 1993 Alex J. Harvey and Katherine E. Cullen
  • 1992 Brian A. McCool
  • 1991 Jeffrey L. Franklin
  • 1990 Yue Feng

Undergraduate Awards

Award for Outstanding Research in Biological SciencesThis award is presented to a senior in Biological Sciences for outstanding research performed as part of a Biological Sciences Major
  • 2008 Joseph Knadler (Commendation: Zurabi Lominadze, Asmitha Sathiyakumar, Noah Spiegel)
  • 2007 Timothy Bowles and Jennifer Colby (Commendation: Colin Dinsmore and Leslie Kim)
  • 2006 Audrey E. Herrin
  • 2005 Joseph Richard Francica Jr.
  • 2004 Latif Dharamsi, Joshua Nepute and Polina Shindiapina
  • 2003 Janene L. Boyce and Susan C. Follstaedt
  • 2000 Christopher G. Bunick and Kelly L. McNaughton
  • 1999 Jason W. Griffith and Megan A. Higgenbotham
  • 1998 Jay Z. Parrish
  • 1997 Peter H. Rosal
  • 1996 Melissa A. Helms and Michael E. Nemergut
  • 1995 Dawn K. Gupta
  • 1994 Pete Fong
  • 1993 Anne Eugenia Kornegay and Jennifer E. Gries
  • 1992 Anita R. Ernst
  • 1991 Monica A. Elrod and Stephan K.H. Lau
  • 1989 Rachel L. Landon
  • 1988 Chavela Carr

     
     
     Honors Students 2004-2005
    • Blake C. Alkire
    • Michael Z. Darnell
    • Benjamin Diop-Frimpong
    • Joseph R. Francica Jr.
    • Justin Junn
    • Rohini Khatri
    • Jordan P. Knepper
    • Laura E. Montague (High Honors)
    • Kellen L. Olszewski
    • Justin S. Poling (High Honors)
    • Jennifer Anne Rymer
    • Justin E. Sucre
     Honors Students 2005-2006
    • Caleb Doll
    • Joe Gomez (High Honors)
    • Richard Green (High Honors)
    • Emma Hamilton (High Honors)
    • Audrey E. Herrin (High Honors)
    • Erik Hysinger
    • Mousumi Medda
    • Elissaveta Petrove
    • Nia Soetandyo
    • Stan Sonu
    • Sarah Tiggelaar (High Honors)
    • Geoffry Todd
        
        


       

       Honors Students 2006-2007
    • Timothy Bowles (High Honors)
    • Julia Brown (High Honors)
    • Daniela Buscariollo
    • Jennifer Cialone
    • Jennifer Colby
    • Carter Davis
    • Colin Dinsmore (High Honors)
    • Alexander Feoktistov
    • Brian Fuller
    • Matthew Hollar
    • Luis Huerta (High Honors)
    • Taha Jan
    • Saira Khan
    • Leslie Kim (High Honors)
    • Anjali Kumbla
    • Steven Liu
    • Alex Page
    • Krithika Srikanthan
    Honors Students 2007-2008
    Laura Chretien
    Jae Lee
    Zurabi Lominadze
    Emily Peeden
    Joshua Wiederman
    Bethany Cartwright(High Honors)
    Kathleen Grogan (High Honors)
    Joseph Knadler(High Honor)
    Asmitha Sathiyakumar(High Honors)
    David Shisler(High Honors)
    Noah Spiegel(High Honors)
     
     
             
     




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