| Analytical Category:
Andrew Karode (Computer Science): Winner [ view poster ]
Graham Lopez (Computer Science): Runner Up [ view poster ]
Santiago Saldana (Computer Science): Runner Up [ view poster ]
[These posters are on display on the 2nd floor of Manchester Hall.]
Basic Category:
Poornima Sukumar (Biology): Winner
Zhidong Ma (Chemistry): Runner Up
Ashley Weant (Microbiology/Immunology): Runner Up
Integrative Category:
Jennifer Mozolic (Neuroscience): Winner
Lindsey Hamilton (Neuroscience): Runner Up
Hetal Pandya (Molecular Genetics and Genomics): Runner Up
Social Category:
Lori Mack (Psychology): Winner
Austin James (Education): Runner Up
Shannon Stark (Psychology): Runner Up
Translational:
Darnell Josiah (Molecular Medicine): Winner
Amber Bonovitch (Biomedical Engineering): Runner Up
Jill Wykosky (Molecular Medicine): Runner Up
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Dear Graduate Faculty,
We want to announce the winners of the best poster presentations from yesterday’s GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES RESEARCH DAY. For the many of you able to attend this event, I am sure you were pleased at the number of students participating (100) and high-level quality of their poster presentations. It was a remarkable display of the inventiveness, hard work and exciting new frontiers being explored by our graduate programs.
In an effort to both applaud such scholarship and to increase the opportunity for constructive feedback to students, we instituted a series of “best poster” prizes this year. The list of winners appears [above]; please pass along your congratulations to these students and accept our congratulations to you, the program faculty. We are grateful to have had several sponsors whose financial support helped to defray some of the costs for making this year’s awards and hosting the program -- Targacept, and the Office of Technology Asset Management at Wake Forest University Health Sciences. If you have ideas about additional groups that might be interested in such sponsorship, please let us know. Also, let us know any additional ideas you have for further improving this important event.
We also want to recognize the excellent talks provided by Dr. Tony Atala, Director of the Institute of Regenerative Medicine and the three students Catherine Ward (biomedical engineering), Dawn Delo (Molecular Medicine), and David Burmeister (Physiology/Pharmacology) who participated in the HOT TOPICS COMMUNITY FORUM. Their presentations concerning “Tissue Engineering and Stem Cells: Current Concepts and Future Trends” showed the exciting synergy and high-level advances in our understanding that are realized when students and faculty work together on pressing health and other important, societal issues.
Thanks for all you do to make our graduate programs a success!
Sincerely,
Lorna G.Moore
Linda McPhail
Cecilia Solano |