Congratulations to the following 2009-10 UAMS Graduate School Achievement Award Winners: James Bellamy, Sarah Cullen, Sujay Kharade, Omar Rahal, Christian Simmons, Avis Simms, Sharla Smith, and Jennifer Watts.
Michael Bauer (Bioinformatics)
- Received the Exceptional Presentation Award at the 2009 Southeast IDeA Regional Meeting
James Bellamy (Health Systems Research)
- Received Pilot Grants from the UNC Preparedness and Emergency Research Center and the University of Kentucky Center for the Public Health Systems and Services Research
Shweta Chavan (Bioinformatics)
- Received the Exceptional Presentation Award at the 2009 Southeast IDeA Regional Meeting
Shimul Chowdhury (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- Received a travel award to attend the 50th Annual Teratology Society Meeting
Sarah Cullen (Microbiology and Immunology)
- Selected to attend the 2009 NIH Graduate Student Research Festival
Dinesh Hirenallur-Shanthappa (Pharmacology)
- Received the best abstract award in the ASPET Cardiovascular Division at the 2009 Experimental Biology Conference
Sarika Kadam (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- Received a National Kidney Foundation Educational Stipend to attend the 2010 Spring Clinical Meeting
Sujay Kharade (Pharmacology)
- Received an American Heart Association Predoctoral Grant
Tanecia Mitchell (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- Received a APS/NIDDK Minority Travel Fellowship Award to attend the 2010 Experimental Biology conference
- Selected to compete in Graduate Student Best Abstract Oral Award at EB 2010—ASPET: Division for Integrative Systems, Translational and Clinical Pharmacology
- Recipient of the FASEB MARC Program Travel Award for the Leadership Development and Grant Writing Seminar Program for Graduate Students and Postdocs on August 28–29, 2009 in Virginia Beach, VA
Omar Rahal (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- Received a Predoctoral Fellowship from the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program
Somdutta Saha (Bioinformatics)
- Received a NSF Travel Award for the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
- Avis Simms (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- Received the inaugural UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Breast Cancer Fellowship
Sharla Smith (Health Systems Research)
- Received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2009 Top 5 Article of the Year Award
Shraddha Thakkar (Bioinformatics)
- Received a NSF Travel Award for the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
Misty Thompson (Pharmacology)
- Received a 2010 Experimental Biology travel award from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Jennifer Watts (Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences)
- Received a NIH Ruth Kirschstein NRSA
Martin Watts (Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences)
- Selected to attend the 2010 Attracting MD/PhD Students into Gastroenterology Workshop
Jinhu Xiong (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- Received a 2009 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Young Investigator Award
Agnieszka Zielinska (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- Received an Arnold Ravin Muriel Rogers Fellowship travel award for Wind River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology 2009
UAMS Graduate Student Research Funds Grant
Natara Andrews
Stametela (Matina) Balou
Minho Chae
Kevin Kim
UAMS Graduate School Travel Awards
Baby Aarattuthodiyil
Puneet Bharill
Shimul Chowdhury
Scott Helms
Rawad Hodeify
Matthew Howell
Kevin Kim
Mahaswari Rajasekaran
Kimberly Reynolds
Christian Simmons
Christen Simon
Sherri Smart
Jennifer Watts
Jinhu Xiong