News and Awards
33rd Annual Nominata Award Recipient Announced
Southwestern Graduate School is pleased to announce Tina Han of the Biological Chemistry Graduate Program as this year’s recipient for the Nominata Award. This award is presented annually and is the highest honor bestowed by the Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. As an advanced student, Tina has demonstrated academic excellence and an exceptional level of research achievement. Her accomplishments serve as an outstanding example for all students here at UT Southwestern. Steven McKnight, PhD, Professor and Chairman of Biochemistry, is her mentor.
Award recipient, Tina Han, will present her research at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, 2012, in the NB2.EEF Auditorium in conjunction with the University Lecture Series.
Discretionary Award recipients for the 2012 Nominata Award competition are:
Kole Roybal of the Immunology Graduate Program. Mentor, Christoph Wuelfing, PhD, Associate Professor of Immunology
Ruei-Jiun Hung of Neuroscience Graduate Program. Mentor, Jonathan Terman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Congratulations to all award recipients!
2012 Nominata Nominees
Tracy Chow – Cancer Biology, Jerry Shay, PhD/Woodring Wright, MD, PhD
Michael Dodge – Cell Regulation, Lawrence Lum, PhD
Andrew Mullen – Genetics & Development, Ralph Deberardinis, MD, PhD
Kole Roybal – Immunology, Christoph Wuelfing, PhD
Ling Cai – Integrative Biology, Benjamin Tu, PhD
Thomas Moon – Molecular Biophysics, Elizabeth Goldsmith, PhD
Robert Orchard - Molecular Microbiology, Neal Alto, PhD
Ruei–Jiun Hung - Neuroscience, Jonathan Terman, PhD
Complete list of Nominata Award Recipients
2012 Annual Ida M. Green Award Recipient Announced
Please join Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in congratulating award recipient Maria Grosch as she has been selected to receive the 26th Annual Ida M. Green Award. Maria has conducted her research in the Clinical Psychology graduate program under mentor C. Munro Cullum, PhD, ABPP-CN. Maria has demonstrated both scholastic excellence in her field and an outstanding commitment to the welfare of other students and to the Graduate School as a whole. This honor carries a monetary award provided by the Women in Science and Medicine Advisory Committee (WISMAC)/Southwestern Medical Foundation.
Ida M. Green, who died in 1986, championed the cause of opening new career paths for women in science and provided a major bequest to Southwestern Medical Foundation. The Ida M. Green Award was established in 1987 to honor Mrs. Green, and to acknowledge the many generous contributions she and her husband, Cecil, have made to our university. Nominations for this award are solicited from students and faculty of the Southwestern Graduate School and are considered by the school's award committee.
2012 Ida M. Green Nominees
Fatema Chowdhury – IMM, J. David Farrar, PhD
Maria Grosh – CLP, C. Munro Cullum, PhD, ABPP-CN
Carly Hale – NS, Chris Cowan, PhD
Meghan Hennis – NS, Matt Goldberg, PhD
Adebimpe Kasumu – NS, Ilya Bezprozvanny, PhD, DSci
Jacqueline Njoroge – MM, Vanessa Sperandio, PhD
Alice Spurgin – CLP, Peter Stavinoha, PhD, ABPP
Swalpa Udit – MSTP, Joel Elmquist, DVM, PhD
Complete list of Ida M. Green Recipients
Winners: 2011 GSO Poster Session and 43rd Annual Sigma Xi Abstract Competition
View the competition winners