At the Graduation Celebration & Student Awards Ceremony, held Friday, May 5, 2017, in the Jacobs Science Building, several undergraduate and graduate students were recognized.
Undergraduate Awards:
Freshman Chemistry Award: Jacqueline Kowalke
General Chemistry Excellence Award: Nathaniel Morgan, Grace Anderson
Hammond Leadership Award: Amir Kucharski
Hammond Undergraduate Service Award: Jumanah Mahmoud
The New Maps Plus graduate programs at the University of Kentucky offer students a challenging, intensive, digital mapping curriculum that emphasizes the acquisition of technical skills—coding, GIS, web development—while also preparing students to critically address the complexity of today’s information ecosystem.
Melissa Keinath, a graduate student in the University of Kentucky Department of Biology, has been awarded a Genome 10K fellowship to attend the 2015 Genome 10K Conference
Marie Forbes-Osborne is the 2012-13 recipient of the Gertrude Ribble Graduate Fellowship. During this period, she published the results of her research project on the role of the Insm1a gene on zebrafish photoreceptor differentiation in the journal Developmental Biology. Marie will present the current status and recent results of her continuing investigations.
Kudos to our graduate students for their many successes!
Spring 2018
Awards
Cagney Coomer (Morris Lab) received the Community Service Award at the 2017 Women of Color STEM Conference in Detroit, MI and received the 2018 MLK Leadership Award from the Kentucky MLK Commission.
