Congratulations to the following 2012-2013 UAMS Graduate School Achievement Award Winners: Adam Corken, Kerry Jordan, Laura MacDonald, Brent Molden, Sarah Norman, Asif Pathan, Naeem Patil, Michael Preston, Diane Robinson, and Sharla Smith.
Adam Corken (Interdiscipliary Biomedical Sciences)
- Received an American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship
Kerry Jordan (Nursing Science)
- Received the Jonas Nursing Leaders Scholar Program Fellowship
Laura MacDonald (Microbiology and Immunology)
- For her efforts organizing the Graduate Student Teachers of Central Arkansas
Brent Molden (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- Awarded a NIH F30 NRSA Predoctoral fellowship
Sarah Norman (Pharmaceutical Sciences)
- Received the American Federation of Pharmaceutical Education/Kappa Epsilon Nellie Wakeman Fellowship
Asif Pathan (Pharmacology)
- Awarded an American Heart Association Predoctoral fellowship
Naeem Patil (Interdisciplinary Toxicology)
- Awarded the Amercian Heart Association Predoctoral fellowship
Michael Preston (Health Systems Research)
- Received a 2013 Public Health Services and Systems Research (PHSSR) Junior Investigator award
Diane Robinson (Health Systems Research)
- Received a Public Health Law Research dissertation grant award
Sharla Smith (Health Systems Research)
- Received a Southern Regional Education Board Doctoral Dissertation Award
Orwa Aboud (Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences)
- Travel Award, Curing the Epilepsies 2013: Pathways Forward Conference
Melody Allensworth (Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences)
- Won the Presidential Poster Competition in the Obesity Category at the Endocrine Society Meeting
Danielle Atwood (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- Travel Award, 2013 Translational Science Meeting
Lauren Bailey (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- Received a travel award to attend the Radiation Research Society Meeting
April Bostian (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- ASBMB Graduate Student Travel Award, 2013 Experimental Biology Meeting
Sarah Eddy (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- ASBMB Graduate Student Travel Award, 2013 Experimental Biology Meeting
Tristan Fowler (Cellular Physiology and Molecular Biophysics)
- Received the 2012 President’s Poster Competition Award at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
Brenda Gannon (Interdisciplinary Toxicology)
- Travel Award, 2013 Behavior, Biology, and Chemistry (BBC) Meeting
Joseph Graham (Microbiology and Immunology)
- Received a travel award to the American Society for Rickettsiology Annual Meeting
Melissa Heard (Cellular Physiology and Biophysics)
- Endocrine Society Travel Award, ENDO 2013 Early Career Forum
Chenell Loudermill (Communication Sciences and Disorders, Ph.D.)
- Paula J. Gober Public School Award from the Arkansas Speech Language & Hearing Association
Laura MacDonald (Microbiology and Immunology)
- Travel Award, 2013 ASM Conference for Undergraduate Educators
- Received a travel award to the American Society for Rickettsiology Annual Meeting
Aleksandra Markovets (Bioinformatics)
- 1st Place in the Computational Poster Presentation Track at the NSF Bioinformatics Workshop to Foster Collaborative Research
Faith McDaniel (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)
- ASBMB Travel Award, 2013 Experimental Biology Meeting
Nisha Nanaware (Pharmacology)
- ASPET Travel Award, 2013 Experimental Biology Meeting
- For Serving as Chair and Organizer of the symposium “Emerging Technologies for Delivery of Neurotherapeutics Across the Blodd Brain Barrier” at the 2013 Experimental Biology Meeting
- Selected to serve as the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) National Biotechnology Conference Liaison on the AAPS Biotech Section Student Committee
- Selected to serve as a moderator for a session at the AAPS annual meeting
Angela Odle (Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences)
- Ranked in the Top 5 in the Presidential Poster Competition in the Neuroendocrinology Category at the Endocrine Society Meeting
Asif Pathan (Pharmacology)
- ASPET Graduate Student Travel Award, 2013 Experimental Biology Meeting
- For Being Accepted as a Finalist for the ASPET Cardiovascular Pharmacology Graduate Student Competition, 2013 Experimental Biology Meeting
Aaron Storey (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
- UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center Travel Award to attend the 20th Annual Southeastern Yeast Meeting
Shraddha Thakkar (Bioinformatics)
- For being appointed Vice President of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
- Received a Margaret C. Etter Student Lecturer Award at the American Crystallographic Association Meeting
Zachary Waldrip (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
- Received the Paul L. Day Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in the Department of Biochemistry
Rose Willett (Cellular Physiology and Molecular Biophysics)
- Received a travel award from the American Society for Cell Biology to attend the annual meeting
Caylin Winchell (Microbiology and Immunology)
- Received a travel award and honorable mention for her poster at the Bacterial Type IV Secretion Workshop
UAMS Graduate School Travel Awards
Ahmed Al-Dwairi
Lauren Bailey
Adam Corken
Centdrika Dates
Pratik Doshi
Sharon Jones
Nathan Koonce
Nisha Nanaware
Rebecca Pope
Praveen Kumar Potukuchi
Anand Ramdas Shewale
Shraddha Thakkar
Jai Shankar Yadlapalli
Danielle Atwood
Joshua Eichhorn
Zheng Chen
FeAna Francis Deveraj
Tristan Fowler
Justin Graham
Jennifer Junecko
Yicong Li
Akira Marine
Naeem Patil
Balaji Rangarathnam
Nandini Sakurikar
Awantika Singh
Daniel Wikenheiser
Rose Willett
Christopher Moore
LeeAnn King
Sara Prior
Dae Song Jang
Emily Reichard
Sarah Eddy
April Bostian
Tonisha Kearney-Ramos
Adam Brown
Nathan Avaritt
Michael Hambuchen
James Steele
Nisha Nanaware
Melissa Heard