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
