Awards
Undergraduate Awards
Kyle Auger
2015
National Institutes of Health Fellowship
Connor Van Meter
2017
Honorable mention for Goldwater Scholarship
Kristin O'Leary
2017
CEDIK Appalachian Health Center Scholarship
UK Undergraduate Research Travel Award
Annie Griffith
2016
Selected for National Youth Science Camp
Ben Turner
2015
National Institutes of Health Fellowship
Graduate Awards
Meenakshi Bannerjee
2013
Second Place Pre-doctoral Poster Presentation, Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry Departmental Retreat
2014
Max Steckler Fellowship, University of Kentucky Graduate School
2017
Second Place at 16th Gill Heart Cardiovascular Day Postdoc Poster Competition
Chelsea Barrett
2017
ASBMB Travel Award
ASV Graduate Student Travel Award
University of Kentucky Graduate Student Travel Award
2017 – 2018
UK WISM Rising Star Award
Brittany Carpenter
2015
T32 Fellowship
Rebekah Eleazar
2019
ASBMB Travel Award
Alex Helman
2016 – 2017
Max Steckler Award
2017 – 2018
Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship from the National Academy of Sciences
Joshua Lykins
2019
ASBMB Travel Award
Robert Murphy
2017
Daniel R. Reedy Quality Achievement Award
ASBMB Travel Award
2017 – 2020
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Rachel Sieg
2017
Midwest Zebrafish Conference (Podium Presentation)
ASBMB Travel Award
Zoe Simmons
2017
TL1 Predoctoral Award from CCTS
Sarah Martin Spaulding
2015
ASBMB Science Policy Fellowship
Robert A. Lester Award*
Payton Stevens
2015 – 2018
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Award (NIH)
NIH/NCI F31 April
Rachel Thompson
2019
ASBMB Travel Award
Justin Weldon
2018
COM Excellence in Research Graduate Fellowship
2019
ASBMB Travel Award
Zachary Williamson
2017
Fellowship to attend the Cold Spring Harbor Course: X-Ray Methods in Structural Biology
University of Kentucky Graduate School Student Travel Award
Catherine Withers
2013 – 2016
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Lyndsay Young
2019
ASBMB Travel Award
Jean Branntie
2015
Kentucky Opportunity Fellowship
Northern Kentucky Alumni Fellowship
2016 – 2018
Lyman T. Johnson Fellowship
2017
COM Excellence in Research Graduate Fellowship
Mary K. Brewer
2015
Kentucky Opportunity Fellowship
Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati UK Alumni Club Fellowship
2016
Daniel R. Reedy Quality Achievement Award
2017
Philanthropic Educational Organization Scholar Award
1st Place Poster Presentation, Department of Biochemistry Spring Research Conference
Outstanding Poster Award, 34th Annual Bluegrass Society for Neuroscience (BGSFN) Spring Neuroscience Day
Victoria Dunlap
Tenure-track position at the University of Central Arkansas
Meredith Eckstein
2015
Graduate School Academic Year Fellowship
2016 – Present
Diversity Supplement 02S1 for R01-ES024478-YFM
2017
Daniel R. Reedy Quality Achievement Award
ASBMB Travel Award for Experimental Biology
Travel Award
2017 – 2018
Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati UK Alumni Club Fellowship
Hye In Jong
2017
ASBMB Travel Award
2018
Max Steckler Award
Smita Joshi
2014
Young Investigator Merit Award, 15th Midwest Platelet Conference
Graduate Student Travel Award
Kentucky Opportunity Fellowship
2015 – 2017
American Heart Association
Tyler Kinder
2017
ASV Graduate Student Travel Award
University of Kentucky Graduate School Student Travel Award
ASBMB Travel Awards
2018
Max Steckler Award
Farah El Najjar
2014
University of Kentucky Graduate School Academic Year Fellowship
2016
Robert A. Lester Award*
Rebecca Norcross
2017
ASBMB Travel Award
Shravani Prahkya
2019
ASBMB Travel Award
Madushi Raththagala
2017
Tenure-Track Faculty Position at Skidmore College
Caitlyn Reidmann
2013
Graduate Travel Award
2015
F31 Fellowship
2017
AAAS Poster Competition/Honorable Mention in Cellular and Molecular Biology
Kerri Beth Slaughter
2017
Honorable Mention, NSF Predoc
2018
COM Excellence in Research Graduate Fellowship
Everett Clinton Smith
Tenure-Track position at Sewanee, University of the South
Ashley Stevens
2019
ASBMB Travel Award
Stacy Webb
2013
Max Steckler Award
Graduate Travel Award
UK Graduate School Travel Award, American Society for Virology
2015
F31 Fellowship
2017
Robert A. Lester Award*
2015 – 2018
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Award (NIH)
Post-Doctoral Awards
Nicolas Cifuentes
2017
Second Place in COM Postdoctoral Competition
Ramon Sun
2017
First Place at Stand Up for Your Start Business Plan Competition
Second Place at the University of Kentucky Bootcamp Business Plan Competition
Co-I on COBRE grant: "Defining the Contribution of Laforin in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Metabolism and Tumorigenesis"
2018
Promoted to Research Assistant Professor
Faculty Awards
Jessica Blackburn
2018
NIH New Innovator Award
Rebecca Dutch
2015
University Research Professorship
2017
President of the American Society of Virology
Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf
2017
Undergraduate Research Faculty of the Week (September)
2018
2018 COBRE Independence Macaig Award
Matthew Gentry
2017
University Research Professorship
Chair of the ASBMB Public Affairs Advisory Committee
Natasha Kyprianou
2017
Basic Urologic Research Distinguished Service Award
Kathleen O'Connor
University of Kentucky Women in Medicine and Science Mentorship Award Finalist
Sidney (Wally) Whiteheart
2018
Fellowship of the American Heart Association