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2019-2020 Awards

Dustyn Barnette (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Third Place, Poster presentation at the GSA Symposium

Keisha Cawley (Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences)                                     ASBMR Young Investigator Award at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting in September

Melissa Clemens (Pharmacology & Toxicology )
Travel Award, Society for Toxicology for the annual meeting in March 2020
Finalist, Carl C. Smith award given out by the Mechanism section of the Society for Toxicology Pharmacology & Toxicology

Elizabeth Cleveland (Communication Sciences & Disorders)
Louis M. DiCarlo Award for clinical achievement at the 2019 Arkansas Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, October 2019

Mary “Allie” Davis (GPIBS Biochemistry)
First Place, Oral presentation at the GSA Symposium

Marcelle Dina Zita (Microbiology & Immunology)
Second Place, Poster presentation at the GSA Symposium                          

Laura Ewing (Pharmacology & Toxicology)
Travel Award, South Central Chapter of the Society of Toxicology meeting in October
Third Place, oral presentation at the GSA symposium

Francesca LoBianco (GPIBS MD/PhD)
Third Place, Oral presentation at the GSA Symposium

Tiffany Miles (Neurobiology & Developmental Science)
First Place, Poster presentation at the GSA Symposium

Shana Owens (Microbiology & Immunology)
Second Place, Oral presentation at the GSA Symposium

Posted by Kelli Roy on April 20, 2023

Filed Under: Graduate School Achievement Award Winners

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