Congratulations to the following 2011-12 UAMS Graduate School Achievement Award Winners: Paige Beck, Christina Pettey, Shanthi Vadali, Stephanie Byrum, Jinhu Xiong, Melda Onal, and Adam Brown.
Stamatela Balou (Communication Sciences and Disorders, Ph.D.)
- Received the 2011 AHEPA Foundation Scholarship Award
Adam Brown (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- Received a Scholar-in-Training award for the Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference
- Received an NIH NRSA predoctoral fellowship
Paige Beck (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- Awarded a NIH NRSA predoctoral fellowship
Christina Pettey (Nursing Science)
- Awarded a NIH NRSA predoctoral fellowship
Shanthi Vadali (Interdisciplinary Toxicology)
- Awarded an American Heart Association Predoctoral fellowship
Stephanie Byrum (Bioinformatics)
- Awarded a NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellowship
Tristan Fowler (Cellular Physiology and Molecular Biophysics)
- Selected to attend the EFF/ASBMR Fifth Fellows Forum on Bone Diseases
- Received an ASBMR Young Investigator Award to Attend the European Calcified Tissue Society PhD Training Course
Melissa Heard (Cellular Physiology and Molecular Biophysics)
- Received a Society for the Study of Reproduction travel award to attend the 2011 SSRR Annual Meeting
Nebojsa Kezunovic (Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences)
- Received third place at ASPET’s Best Abstract Competition at Experimental Biology 2011
Nisha Nanaware (Pharmacology)
- Received third place at ASPET’s Best Abstract Competition at Experimental Biology 2011
Melda Onal (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- Received an ASBMR Young Investigator Annual Meeting Travel Grant to attend the 2011 ASBMR meeting
Somdutta Saha (Bioinformatics)
- Received a travel award to attend the 2011 MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society meeting
- Received an ACM-BCB student travel award to attend the ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine 2011 meeting
- Received a travel award to attend the 2011 Southeast Regional IDeA Meeting
Awantika Singh (Bioinformatics)
- First place in the poster division at the 2011 MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society meeting
Patricia Wright (Health Systems Research)
- Received a junior investigator travel award for the 2011 Addictions Health Services Research conference
Jinhu Xiong (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- Received an ASBMR Young Investigator Annual Meeting Travel Grant to attend the 2011 ASBMR meeting
Anisha Rathi (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
- First Place-Oral presentation, 96th annual Conference of the Arkansas Academy of Sciences
Sharla Smith (Health Systems Research)
- “Final 5” Manuscript, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Most Influential Research for 2011
Kristie Hadden (Health Promotion and Prevention Research)
- 2011 Arkansas SOPHE Honorary Fellow Award 2011