Annual Business Meeting and Awards Banquet 2017
Recipients of the Distinguished Research Awards
Junior Faculty Award– Dr. Jianping Wang, Assistant Professor of Agronomy with research interest focusing on translational genomics for improvement of sugarcane, peanut, biofuel and other important crops.
Senior Faculty Award– Dr. Panayote Pardalos, Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Industrial Systems and Biomedical Engineering and a world renowned leader in Global Optimization, Mathematical Modeling, and Data Sciences.
Outstanding Graduate Student Awards
Alison Bechard, Psychology
Zirong Chen, Interdisciplianry Program in Biomedical Sciences
M. Sofia Ortega, Animal Sciences
Pre-college Teacher of the Year
Sara Charbonnet, Westwood Middle School, has a passion for the field of science and is one of the regions strongest advocates for science education and school science fairs.
Travel Award Recipients
Miguel Zarate Urbano, College of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics
Andrew Antolic, Department of Pharmacodynamics
Sigma Xi Honor Cord Recipient
Lauren Vetere, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Neurobiological Sciences.
Annual Business Meeting and Awards Banquet 2015
Recipients of the Distinguished Research Awards from left to right: Dr. Nicolas DiLorenzo, Melissa K. Bozeman, Dr. James L. Resnick
New Members from left to right: Marcus Zenobi, Sofia Ortega Obando, Veronica Negron- Perez, Paula Tribulo, Ibuken Ogunade. Not picture: Danielle Davis and Cliff Lamb.
Annual Business Meeting and Awards Banquet April 12, 2012
Dr. James Gillooly speaks on “Why Scientists Need Artists”
Recipients of the Distinguished Research Awards.
From left to right: Robert J. Cousins, Jose E. Santos,
Martin J. Cohn, and Virginia Christensen
Rafael Bisinotto accepts the Junior Faculty Award for Jose E. Santos
Martin J. Cohn receives the Senior Faculty Research Award
Robert J. Cousins receives the Senior Faculty Research Award
Virginia Christensen receives the Pre-college Teaching Award
