2020 LIFE SCIENCES EXCELLENCE AWARDEES

TOP ROW: Rutledge, Campbell-Staton, Correa, Monti, Frye BOTTOM ROW: Robin, Clark, Kane, Pinter-Wollman, Coller

 

RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARDS

 

Research Excellence Award, PhD candidate

Kelsi Rutledge • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Buth Lab)

Awarded for:  “A new guitarfish of the genus Pseudobatis (Batoidea: Rhinobatidae) with key to the guitarfishes of the Gulf of California” Copeia, 2019

 

Research Excellence Award, Assistant Professor

Shane Campbell-Staton, PhD • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Awarded for:  “Winter storms drive rapid phenotypic, regulatory, and genomic shifts in the green anole lizard”, Science 2017

 

Research Excellence Award, Assistant Professor

Stephanie Correa, PhD • Integrative Biology and Physiology

Awarded for:  “Hypothalamic estrogen receptor alpha establishes a sexually dimorphic regulatory node of energy expenditure” Nature Metabolism, 2020

 

Research Excellence Award, Associate Professor

Martin Monti, PhD •  Psychology

Awarded for:  “Non-Invasive Ultrasonic Thalamic Stimulation in Disorders of Consciousness after Severe Brain Injury: A First-in-Man Report” Brain Stimulation, 2016

 

Research Excellence Award, Full Professor

Mark Frye, PhD • Integrative Biology and Physiology

Awarded for:  “Olfactory and neuromodulatory signals reverse visual object avoidance to approach in Drosophila”  Current Biology, 2019

 

 

EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION EXCELLENCE AWARDS

 

Inclusive Excellence Award

Ira Clark, PhD •  Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology

 

Educational Innovation Excellence Award, PhD candidate.
Amanda Robin
• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

 

Educational Innovation Excellence Award, Lecturer   

Tonya Kane, PhD • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

 

Educational Innovation Excellence Award, Associate Professor
Noa Pinter-Wollman, PhD • 
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

 

Educational Innovation Excellence Award, Tenured Professor
Hilary Coller, PhD • 
Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology