Graduate Student Accolades Archive


UConn Graduate Students Organize Symposium to Highlight Green Chemistry’s Role in Academia and Industry

University of Connecticut Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee (GSSPC) members have organized a symposium for the upcoming National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. The Committee is comprised of members Sadagopan Krishnan, Besnik Bajrami, Michelle Dean, Justin Fair, Christine Cardillo, Ashley Bartelson, and Naimish Sardesai.

The symposium titled “Transitioning into Green Chemistry” spotlights how academia and industry can enhance their use of green chemistry. The event will take place from Aug. 17 - 21 at the 236th ACS Fall National Meeting and Exposition in Philadelphia, PA.


Julie Richmond, Ph.D. student Department of Animal Science, was awarded the Malcolm Ramsey Memorial Scholarship

Julie Richmond, Ph.D. student Department of Animal Science, was awarded the Malcolm Ramsey Memorial Scholarship by the Comparative Nutrition Society (CNS) to recognize student research in field animal research.

The award will be used to travel to the CNS meetings to be held in Nova Scotia.


Daniela Melo, Ph.D.

Daniela Melo, a Ph.D. student in the department of Political Science, has been awarded a fellowship by the Luso-American Development Foundation and the Direcção Geral dos Arquivos (LADF/DGARQ) for research in Portugal. The LADF/DGARQ fellowships are granted to develop research projects in history and the social sciences. Ms. Melo will be conducting research on mechanisms of repression and mobilization during the Portuguese democratic transition.


Nanci Ross, Ph.D.

Ms Nanci Ross, Ph.D. student of Greg Anderson from the Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, won the Edmund H. Fulling Award for best student contributed oral paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany. This, the 49th annual meeting of the Society, was held during the week of 2 June at Duke University. The title of Ms Ross' presentation was: "Impacts of ancient Maya forest gardens on Mesoamerican tree species composition."


UConn MPA student awarded the 2008 Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Daniel B. Goldberg Scholarship

MPA student Barbara Rua was awarded the 2008 Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Daniel B. Goldberg Scholarship The Goldberg Scholarship recognizes outstanding performance of graduate students preparing for a career in state and local finance. The award carries a $10,000 prize. Barbara will receive her award at the annual GFOA conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in June, 2008.


UConn Ph.D. Student awarded fellowship from the National Science Foundation’s East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI )

Dawn Carone, a Ph.D. candidate in Genetics and Bioinformatics working in the lab of Prof. Rachel O’Neill (MCB) was recently awarded a prestigious fellowship from the National Science Foundation’s East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI ) for her work on marsupial small RNAs. This year, only 20 awards (from over 530) were granted to Australia and Dawn was the only molecular biology recipient in the US. For more information about this award: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03608/nsf03608.htm


UCONN Ph.D. Student awarded a 2008 Chapman Grant from the American Museum of Natural History

Trina Bayard, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has been awarded a 2008 Chapman Grant from the American Museum of Natural History's Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund. The grant, named for a long-term Chairman of the Department of Ornithology at the Museum, will support Trina's field research on the behavioral ecology and conservation of saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrows in coastal Connecticut. For more information on this award: http://research.amnh.org/ornithology/grants.htm

Angie Beeman

Angie Beeman, Graduate Student and PhD candidate from the Sociology department, won the Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Scholarship given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). The scholarship is for $10,000 and also provides an additional $500 to attend the annual meeting of the SSSP.

Julie Richmond

Julie Richmond, a graduate student from Animal Science, received a monetary award for winning an oral presentation competition that took place on May 7, 2007 at the International Association of Aquatic Animal Medicine. The topic of her presentation was "Somatotropic Axis in Rehabilitated Harbor Seals: Hormones Associated with Nutrient Utilization and Growth.

Nanci Ross

Nanci Ross, a Graduate Student from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has been awarded the 2007 Richard E. Schultes Award for her research proposal. The Richard E. Schultes student research award is intended to help defray the costs of field work on a topic related to economic botany. Recipients are expected to submit a manuscript based upon their proposed research for publication in Economic Botany (the official journal of the society). Ms. Ross is a graduate student working with Greg Anderson.

Amanda Wendt

Amanda Wendt, a doctoral student from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will be receiving a grant for $1500 from the Organization for Tropical Studies to support her proposed research on "Roosting behavior, foraging behavior, and seed dispersal by frugivorous phyllostomid bats in secondary forests at La Selva Biological Station."

Amanda Snook

Amanda Snook, a first year graduate student in the Psychology Department, was awarded a three-year National Science Foundation doctoral fellowship. Ms. Snook studies forgiveness in close relationships. Her advisor is Professor David A. Kenny.










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