Student Snapshots and Awards
Rising Star Award
Julianne Patterson (Applied Biotechnology Major) won the Hans and Margrit Broder Rising Star Award. This award recognizes an outstanding junior who has excelled in both academics and leadership. She begins an internship at the CDC’s Division of Laboratory Sciences, this summer.
Student Kudos
Congratulations to Sophie Reindl and Sofie Varriano for being awarded the CTL 2024 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Thank you both for your dedication to high-quality instruction for the students in your classroom.
Congratulations to Alex Morales (Burke Lab) for being awarded the very competitive NIH T32 grant for 2024-2025. The Genetics Training Program (GTP) is an inter-departmental training program that includes faculty and their students from across UGA who focus on genetics research. The GTP is supported by an NIH T32 Genetics Training Grant. The GTP brings together the genetics community at UGA, and the NIH T32 training grant provides students from across campus with training in genetics and opportunities for career development. The NIH T32 Genetics Training Grant currently funds stipends for twelve Ph.D. students.
2024 Graduate School Summer Research Grants were awarded to Rosan Adhikari and Subin Neupane of the Ash Sial lab and to Carly Sharp in the Bill Snyder lab. The grant is up to $1500 per student with funds to be used for supplies, operating costs, and/or specialized trainings associated with conducting research for dissertations.
Congrats, Jon!
Jon Golan (Entomology and Applied Biotechnology Major) received the First Honor Graduates Award, which recognizes seniors graduating from UGA with an overall GPA of 4.0. He also received the CAES Outstanding Senior Award for Entomology. This award recognizes CAES seniors who have excelled in their majors through both academic and leadership activities.
Student Meeting Awards
Graduate students received awards at professional meetings this past spring semester. They are as follows:
SEB-ESA meeting in Augusta, GA
PhD Poster Competition: Miriam Edelkind-Vealey, 2nd place
PhD Oral Competition: Sudeep Pandey, 2nd place paper presentation
PhD Oral Competition: Sabrina Elgar, 2nd place student 1-minute paper
MS Student Oral Competition: Yna Gaire, 2nd place
GES meeting Jekyll Island
PhD Outstanding Student Scholarship: Sudeep Pandey
PhD Oral Competition: Zia Williamson, 1st place; Daniel Ibiyemi, 2nd place; Sudeep Pandey, 3rd place
Student Poster Presentation: Zia Williamson, 1st place; Susanne Deeb, 2nd place
Student Snapshots
Sudeep Pandey and Babu Srinivasan
Jennifer Berry and Kris Braman
Ashley McCormick at graduation
Ashley McCormick's thesis defense celebration
Nia Keyes-Scott (center) dissertation defense
Zia Williamson presenting at SEB-ESA meeting
Clarke County students learn about entomology