Faculty | Postdoctoral Researchers | Graduate Students | Research Associates | Undergraduates

Faculty

• Keith Clay received a research grant from US Forest Service (along with Burnell Fischer, Clinical Professor in SPEA, his postdoc, Angie Shelton, and graduate students Luke Flory and Dan Johnson); Award amount was $25,065
• Mark Estelle received a Silver Medal Award for Distinguished Research from the International Plant Growth Substance Association
• Roger Hangarter received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Society of Plant Biologists, was named the Class of 1968 Chancellor’s Professor, and was also elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists
• Richard Hardy received the Indiana University Trustees’ Teaching Award
• Thom Kaufman received a “Docteur Honoris Causa de l’Université Paul Sabatier” in Toulouse, France.  He was also recently named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• David Kehoe received the Indiana University Trustees’ Teaching Award
• Curt Lively was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
• Michael Lynch was elected President of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, and also served as President of the American Genetic Association this year
• Armin Moczek received the Indiana University Trustees’ Teaching Award
• Al Ruesink L112 Biological Mechanisms class was selected as one of the top 20 “best practices” introductory Biology courses in the U.S. This is based on a national study of Biology courses conducted by the Center for Educational Policy Research
• Michael Wade was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Mimi Zolan was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Postdoctoral Students            [return to top]

• Andy Alverson was awarded an NIH NRSA postdoctoral research fellowship (Palmer lab)
• Pam Bonner received a three-year NRSA Postdoctoral fellowship from NIH (Brun lab)
• Brody DeYoung was awarded an NIH NRSA postdoctoral research fellowship (Innes lab)
• Emilie Snell-Rood was awarded an NIH NRSA postdoctoral research fellowship (Moczek lab)
• Susannah French won the Best Student Oral Presentation Award from the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (Demas lab)
• Jinwoo Kim received a prestigious fellowship - Korea Research Foundation Postdoctoral Scholarship for $24,381, which is granted to a small number of life scientists per year, and was specifically awarded so that Jinwoo could pursue studies in the Fuqua lab (Fuqua lab)

Graduate Students            [return to top]

• Jennifer Akst received the P. Sears Crowell, Jr. Scholarship (Wade lab)
• Antiño Allen received a dissertation year fellowship and a McCormick Scholarship, both of which he had to decline in order to accept a Porter Fellowship from the American Physiological Society (Smith lab)
• Skye Barendt received the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Fellowship for Minority Students from NIH for 3 years of funding (Winkler lab)
• B. Heather Bleakley received an NSF International Research Fellowship from 2007-2009 for $140,000 and also received an IU Biology Outstanding Assistant Instructor Award (Moczek lab)
• Ryan Bezy received the Walter A. Konetzka Fellowship (Kehoe lab)
• Andrew Burnham received the Milton W. Taylor Fellowship in Virology (Hardy lab)
• Idelle Cooper received the Louise Constable Hoover Fellowship (Lively lab)
• Tami Cruickshank received a Graduate Travel Award to the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia and also received an Evolution, Development & Genomics IGERT Fellowship (Moczek lab)
• Jessica Duchicela received a Fulbright Fellowship from Ecuador (Bever lab)
• S. Luke Flory received the Forest Supervisor’s Award for Excellence in Development of Partnerships from the USDA Forest Service and Hoosier National Forest and also received the Floyd-Ogg Final Year Fellowship (Clay lab)
• Timothy Greives received a Travel Award from the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (Demas lab)
• Adrian Gutu received the Walter A. Konetzka Fellowship (Kehoe lab)
• Ian Hall received a Fellowship from the IU Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior (Hurley lab)
• Andrew Houppert won first place McClung Award for a poster presentation at the IBASM meeting (Marketon lab)
• Jamie Kang received the Floyd-Ogg Final Year Fellowship (Bever lab)
• Bethany Kesselring received an Evolution, Development & Genomics IGERT Fellowship (Moczek lab)
• Kayla King was awarded a three-year graduate fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Lively lab)
• Brett Mattingly was awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the Ecological Biology Program (Reynolds lab)
• Megan Parrott received the Milton W. Taylor Fellowship in Virology (Mukhopadhyay lab)
• Amanda Posto received an Evolution, Development & Genomics IGERT Fellowship, the George Hudock Biology Fellowship, and MORPH RCN travel grant (Moyle lab)
• Melissa-Ann Scotti received a Travel Award from the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (Demas lab)
• M. Helena Mendes Soares received a 4-year PhD Fellowship from the Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (Foundation for Science & Technology) in Portugal (Velicer lab)
• Matthew Stansbury received an NIH Predoctoral Fellowship from 2007-2009 (Moczek lab)
• Barb Swedo received the Floyd-Ogg Final Year Fellowship (Reynolds lab)
• Masashi Yamada was awarded a Fellowship to attend the International Plant Growth Substance Association meeting in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and also received the Floyd-Ogg Final Year Fellowship (Estelle lab)
• Devin Zysling won the Best Student Poster Presentation Award from the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (Demas lab)

Research Associates            [return to top]

• Luz Irina Calderon-Villalobos was awarded a Fellowship to attend the International Plant Growth Substance Association meeting in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (Estelle lab)
• Geraint Parry was awarded a Fellowship to attend the International Plant Growth Substance Association meeting in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (Estelle lab)

Undergraduate Students            [return to top]

• Eric Beckley received an IU Biology Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Intern Award
• Christopher Cole won first place McClung Award for Undergraduate Poster Presentation at the IBASM meeting (Marketon lab)
• Stephen Helms received an NSF Honorary Mention and the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship (Ybe lab)
• John Hvala won the campus-wide Intensive Writing Prize for a paper he wrote for the Biology Honors Evolution course
• John Tyler Means received an HHMI Summer Research Fellowship (Moczek lab)
• Sam Scarpino received an NSF pre-doctoral Fellowship at UT Austin, the IU Bloomington Elvis J. Stahr Distinguished Senior Award, and the Beryl Shower Holland Fellowship (Delph lab)
• Brittany Shepherd received the Malcolm a. Kochert Scholarship, the Fernandus and Elizabeth Payne Undergraduate Award, and an IU Biology Outstanding Honors Thesis Award
• Lenny Weiss received the Tracy C. Owens, M.D. Memorial Scholarship (Kehoe lab)
• Jonathan Willet received the L.S. McClung Research Scholarship (Bauer lab)