Stephen Brantley Award – JEET PATEL

The Brantley Award is given to a senior biology major for excellence in research in molecular, cell, and developmental Biology.

Robert Coker Award – ANITA SIMHA

The Coker Award is given to a senior biology major for excellence in research in organismal biology and ecology.

John Couch Award – JULIA SHEN

The Couch Award is given to a senior biology major with interests in plant biology who has demonstrated the highest ideals of scholarship and research.

Lawrence Gilbert Award – JEET PATEL and WILLSON ZHANG

The Gilbert Award is given to two senior biology majors for excellence in serving as a supplemental instructor, peer mentor, or tutor in a Biology class.

Irvin Hagadorn Award – ANNE FENG

The Hagadorn Award is given to the top junior biology major based on academic and research excellence (this award was presented by Chancellor Carol Folt at the Spring 2017 Chancellor’s Awards Ceremony).

Frances LeClair Award – LEAH JOHNSON

The LeClair Award is given to a senior biology major for academic excellence in biology with an emphasis in plant sciences.

Congratulations to these Biology Honors students who received the indicated designations this spring upon completion of their Honors Thesis projects:

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HIGHEST HONORS IN BIOLOGY:

KATHRYN CITRIN, BENJAMIN LOWE, TARA MCKINNON, NADIA MISHAL, LUCAS NIELSEN, MELODIE NOEL, JEET PATEL, ANITA SIMHA, and DANIELLE SPITZER.

HONORS IN BIOLOGY:

SAHAR ALIMOHAMADI, BRITTNEY ALLYN, NICOLE CHANG, AKSITAY DAJI, SNIGDHA DAS, AUDRA GOLDSTEIN, JOSHUA HANOVER, WILLIAM HARRIS, TRACIE HAYES, JENNIFER JENSEN, LEAH JOHNSON, SAMUEL KERR, CAELLAIGH KIMPSTON, JACQUELINE POSTON, JULIA SHEN, AUSTIN SUN, SMRITHI VALSARAJ,LILIYA VELIKO, JOSEPH WALL, CAMERON WORDEN, and TINA XIANG.

The Ty Hedrick Lab paper “Three-dimensional trajectories and network analyses of group behavior within chimney swift flocks during approaches to the roost,” written by Dennis J. Evangelista, Dylan D. Ray, Sathish K. Raja and Tyson L. Hedrick was published in the Proceedings of Royal Society B. The work was also featured in Science News.

The “Lawrence I. Gilbert Undergraduate Educator Award” was established by Professor Emeritus Larry Gilbert  to recognize undergraduates who have done the most to further biology education to fellow undergraduates. (Examples of undergraduate educators include S.I. leaders, peer mentors, tutors, etc.). If your education has been enriched by an undergraduate assigned to your course for the purpose of helping you learn, please nominate that person for a Gilbert Award using THIS LINK to a one-page nomination form. Nominations will remain open until March 31, 2017.