Current Awards and Accomplishments

• International and National Awards
• UT Southwestern Annual Awards
• 2007 Graduate Student Publications
• Students Presenting at Scientific Meetings
• Student Fellowships

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International and National Awards

Graduate Students

• Leita Marsh Pharmacological Award
  2008-Shondra Miller (Pruett) of Cell Regulation, Mentor- Matthew Porteus
  2007-Ryan Potts of Cell Regulation, Mentor- Hongtao Yu
  
  
• Philanthropic and Educational Organization Scholar Award
  Ann Davis, Immunology Graduate Program
  Amy Mellgren, MSTP student in the Genetics and Development Graduate Program
  
  
• Society for Neuroscience Chapters Graduate Student Travel Award
  Euiseok Kim, Neuroscience Graduate Program

Alumni

• Sir Keith Murdoch Fellowship
  Gwyn Harburg, Immunology Graduate Program
  Research focus: regulation of adult neural stem cells; fundamental biology of adult stem cells and their possible interrelationship with cancer.

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UT Southwestern Annual Awards

2008 Nominata Award

Annually, the Committee on Graduate Student Awards selects a graduate student who has demonstrated academic excellence and research achievement at UT Southwestern. The awarded receives the Nominata Award, $2000, which in addition to the significant recognition, presents the Nominata Lecture to faculty and students at the University Lecture Series venue.

Please click here for a full list of all past Nominata Award recipients. 

Graduate Students

• 2008 MLK Scholarship Award for Community Service Winner
  Shondra Miller (Pruett), Cell Regulation Graduate Program
  
  
• 2007 Annual Nominiata Award
  Ryan Potts, Cell Regulation Graduate Program
  
  
• Ida M. Green Award
  Shondra Miller (Pruett), Cell Regulation Graduate Program
  
  
• Dean's Discretionary Award
  Rochelle Hinman, Immunology Graduate Program
  
  
• 2007 Dean's Research Award Winner
  Dixie J. Woolston, Ph.D., Division of Psychology
  
  
• 2007 Graduate Student Organization Poster Session Winners

The purpose of the poster session is to encourage each the graduate students to learn the very important skill of poster display and presentation. Prizes awarded include $250.00 each for the top 4 posters, 5 Honorable Mention Prizes of $100 each and for the Best in Show - a $250.00 cash prize and $700.00 travel award scholarship. The Sigma Xi competition, offers the opportunity to compose an abstract to explain the research project. The top 6 student entries will be awarded a cash prize of $250.00 and a student membership to Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.

• • Best of Show
    Heng-Chi Lee- Genetics & Development,  Mentor- Yi Liu
    
    
  • Top Five
    Heng-Chi Lee - also received "Best of Show"
    Randall Beane of Molecular Biophysics, Mentor- David Corey
    Shahab Danesh of Genetics & Development, Mentor- Ondine Cleaver
    Sin "Sabrina" Mak of Genetics & Development, Mentors- Jerry Shay & Woodring Wright
    David Meredith of Genetics & Development, Mentor- Jane Johnson
    
    
  • Honorable Mention
    Jen-Cheih Chuang of Integrative Biology, Mentor- Joyce Repa
    Yuri Kim of Genetics & Development, Mentor- Eric Olson
    Rusty Montgomery of Genetics & Development, Mentor - Eric Olson
    Jacob Schwartz of Molecular Biophysics, Mentor- David Corey
    Tre Welch of Biomedical Engineering, Mentor- Drs. Chuong & Eberhart
    
    
• 39th Annual SX Winners
  Chanhee Kang of Genetics & Development, Mentor- Leon Avery
  Heng-Chi Lee of Genetics & Development, Mentor- Yi Liu
  Nicola Reading of Biological Chemistry, Mentor- Vanessa Sperandio
  Jacob Schwartz of Molecular Biophysics, Mentor- David Corey
  Zhu Wang of Biological Chemistry, Mentor- David Mangelsdorf
  Jen-Hsuan Wei of Cell Regulation, Mentor- Joachim Seeman

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Students Presenting at Scientific Meetings

March Omar Nelson (Neuroscience) - 2007 64th Joint Annual Meeting of Beta Kappa Chi/National
Institute of Science

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Student Fellowships

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