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• Congratulations to Vanessa del Valle, an undergraduate working in the laboratory of Lance Wells, for winning the highly prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.



• Congratulations to undergraduate students Neil Pfister, Lindsay Jones and Matt Belcher (Terns lab) who have all been awarded 2008 CURO Summer Research Fellowships.



• Congratulations to Dr. Schmidt for securing a research grant from the Institute for the Study of Aging.  The project aims to identify chemical compounds that modulate the activity of the insulin-degrading enzyme.



• Congratulations to Dr. Schmidt for being awarded the 2008 University of Georgia Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Faculty Award.



• Congratulations to Benjamin Alper and Sarah Breevoort of the Schmidt lab for securing the best graduate and undergraduate oral presentation awards, respectively, at the 2008 Southeast Regional Yeast Meeting.



• Gerold Rosenbaum, an  Associate Research Scientist in the Department and world renown designer of synchrotron beamlines has received  the Advanced Photon Source Compton Award during the APS Users meeting in May. Gerd is a  pioneer in the field of biological X-ray diffraction (built the first beamline and took the first diffraction photographs in the early 70's).  He also designed and built the UGA owned and operated SER-CAT beamlines at APS.



• Bi Cheng (B.C.) Wang has been selected as the 2008 recipient of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA) Patterson Award: “For significant contribution to the methodology of structure  determination from single isomorphous replacement or single-wavelength anomalous scattering data and for its impact on structural biology.”  The Patterson Award, established in 1980 is one of the ACS's highest honors and is given to recognize and encourage outstanding research in the structure of matter by diffraction methods, including significant contributions to the methodology of structure determination and/or innovative application of diffraction methods and/or elucidation of biological, chemical, geological or physical phenomena using new structural information.



• Bi Cheng (B.C.) Wang reveived the SER-CAT Golden Magnolia Award for distinguished service to the Southeast Regional Collaborative Access Team at its recent Symposium at the National Cancer Institute.



• Dr. Claiborne Glover has been selected as one of twelve Writing Fellows for the inaugural year (2007/8) of the Writing Fellows Program sponsored by the UGA Center for Teaching and Learning.



• Dr. Claiborne Glover has been selected as one of twelve Writing Fellows for the inaugural year (2007/8) of the Writing Fellows Program sponsored by the UGA Center for Teaching and Learning.



• Congratulations to Drs. Becky and Michael Terns on renewal of their award from the Nora L. Redman Fund for research on the etiology and treatment of childhood disease.



• Dr. Becky Terns has been invited to speak at the upcoming FEBS Workshop on RNA and DNA Modifying Enzymes in Aussois, France.



• Congratulations to Dr. Shaying Zhao for receiving a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar Award and an American Cancer Society Research Grant.



• Eladio Abreu (Ph.D. student in the Terns lab) is the subject of an article in the UGA Graduate School Magazine that describes his path to a career in biomedical research.



• Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Sarah Breevoort (Schmidt lab) who was highlighted in recent Columns articles for her research and for organizing a cross-country bicycle ride in support of cancer research.



• Congratulations to Chin Fen Teo (Wells Lab), who recently won a 2-year predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association. In this highly competitive atmosphere, Chin Fen's proposal scored in the top 5%.

Winners of the 2007 Harry Peck Research Awards:

• Graduate Student (Junior Award)
  Stephanie Bridger (Michael Adams Laboratory)
  “Elemental Sulfur Metabolism in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus”
  
  
• Graduate Student (Senior Award)
  Crystal Jackson (Deb Mohnen Laboratory)
  “Pectin Induced Apoptosis in Human Prostrate Cancer Cells: Structure and Function Relationship”
  
  
• Postdoctoral Fellow Award
  Laura Cliffe (Bob Sabatini Laboratory)
  “Choose J. Trypanosomes Did”