2012/2013 Honors and Awards

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowships:

• Katie Barrett - Advisor Larry Young
• Ming-fai Fong - Advisors Pete Wenner and Steve Potter

Predoctoral NRSA Awards:

• Santiago Archila - Advisor Astrid Prinz
• David Bass - Advisor Joe Manns
• Mallory Bowers - Advisor Kerry Ressler
• Sarah DeWitt - Advisor Donald Rainnie
• David Ehrlich - Advisor Donald Rainnie
• S. Alisha Epps - Advisor David Weinshenker
• Kalynda Gonzales - Advisors Thomas Wichmann and Yoland Smith
• Erin Hecht - Advisor Lisa Parr
• Brittany Howell - Advisor Mar Sanchez
• Christopher Makinson - Advisor Andrew Escayg
• Jeanne McKeon - Advisor Lian Li
• Yvonne Ogbonmwan - Advisor David Weinshenker
• Nikki Sawyer - Advisor Andrew Escayg
• Katy Shepard - Advisor Robert Liu

Other National Awards:

• Santiago Archila - Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA)
• Santiago Archila - IRACDA Scholars in Science (ISIS) post-doctoral research/teaching fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
• Christina Nemeth - American Heart Association's 2012 Greater Southeast Predoctoral Fellowship

Travel Awards:

• Brittany Howell - Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion
• Brittany Howell - International Society for Developmental Psychobiology
• Santiago Archila - "60 Years of the Hodgkin-Huxley Model" Conference
• Cecilia Prudente - International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders
• Cecilia Prudente - Dystonia Coalition Meeting
• Travis Rotterman - Training course in Neurophotonics at Centre de Reserche Universite Laval

Teaching Fellowships and Awards:

• Sara Freeman - Emory Crystal Apple award for excellence in teaching
• Sara Freeman - Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Curriculum Development Fellow
• Lucy Guillory - NSF PRISM/STEM GK-12 Teaching Fellowship
• Rebecca Meyer - ORDER Teaching Fellowship
• Orion Keifer - HHMI/STEP Curriculum Development Graduate Fellowship

Other Honors and Awards:

• Drew Solyst - Scholars Program in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research (SPINR) Fellow
• Drew Solyst - Alumni Doctoral Scholarship, St. Mary's College of Maryland
• Cecilia Prudente - Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health Related Research
• Cecilia Prudente - Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) Pilot Projects Program
• Rebecca Meyer - HHMI Curriculum Development Fellowship
• Harry Aung - Research to Prevent Blindness Pilot Grant
• Orion Keifer - Best Talk at "Eat. Talk. Teach. Run." Emory Graduate Teaching Initiative
• Orion Keifer - Emory GDBBS Student Mentor Award

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