AWARDS
Aditya Jamwal & Sean Jones both won the Elton C. Cocke Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student.
Patrick Thomas Ryan won the Carolina Biological Supply Company Undergraduate Research Award.
Patrick was very dedicated to his research, as demonstrated by routinely seeing Patrick in the lab when very few students were in Winston Hall. He told several faculty that research was keeping him going, and allowed him to focus. His dedication and commitment to continuing his research was phenomenal. He was also able to work independently at a very high level and his command of the subject matter of his research is well above other undergraduate honors presentations.” – Dr. Susan Fahrbach, Chair of Biology
Dr. Bahjat Fadi Marayati (’21) received the Elton C. Cocke Award for Outstanding Biology Graduate Student.
Jenny Howard received the Outstanding Biology Graduate Teaching Award.
GOLDWATER SCHOLARS
Samuel Schwartz
Mentor: Sheri Floge
Barry S. Goldwater Scholars have impressive academic and research credentials that have garnered the attention of prestigious post-graduate fellowship programs. The Goldwater Scholarship is the preeminent undergraduate award of its type in these fields.
RICHTER SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
Mark Cordell
Mentor: Miles Silman
Project: A Baseline Study of Coral Disease Abundance on Lighthouse Reef Atoll
Kgosi Hughes
Mentor: Pat C. Lord
Project: Exploring Teen Pregnancy in the Context of HIV and Stigma in Botswana
Leonardo Silenzi
Mentor: Wayne Silver
Project: Infantile Amnesia: the Crossroads between Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology
Richter Scholarship Program awards are the largest single awards on campus for the purpose of independent study. Students are encouraged to pursue enriching, broadening projects that have the promise of being life-changing. To enrich the independent study experience, each student is required to have a faculty mentor for his or her project.
WAKE FOREST RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
Louis Ballard
Mentor: James Pease
Project: Magnolia Project
Anamika Bose
Mentor: Sarah Esstman
Project: Purification of a Cellular Protein Critical for Rotavirus Replication
Paul Braymen
Mentor: A. Daniel Johnson
Project: Data Science and Science Writing: Using Computational Linguistics to Quantify Student Writing in Biology Lab Classes
Paige Bryan
Mentor: Brian Tague
Project: Diaporthe Presence in Magnolia Grandiflora Leaf Buds Indicates Novel Fungal Endophyte Transmission
Maysaa El Ibrahim
Mentor: Ke Reid
Project: Genetic Interactions Between Cue2 Endonuclease and Lysine Specific Demethylase Complex in Fission Yeast
Megan Gerber
Mentors: Gloria Muday and Joelle Muhlemann Vidi
Project: Testing Predicted ARF19 Transcription Factor Targets
Sean Jones
Mentor: Joshua Currie
Project: Effect of CRISPR-Cas9-Mediated Knockout of Axolotl Tumor-Suppressor Genes on Development, Homeostasis, and Regeneration
Tianyi Li
Mentor: Gloria Muday
Project: The Investigation of Correlation between ROS Concentration Level and Stomata Aperture
Samuel Schwartz
Mentor: Sheri Floge
Project: Investigating the Mechanism of Induction of a Microcin-C-like Gene Cluster in Synechococcus CC9605
Trey Ursillo
Mentor: Dave Anderson
Project: Behavioral Precursors to Mate Choice in Colonial Seabirds
Elizabeth Weber
Mentor: James Pease
Project: Exploration of Rotavirus A and D NSP1 Gene in Avian Strains (tentative)
Wake Forest Research Fellowships (WFRF) are designed to provide students with the opportunity to participate in intensive scholarship under the mentorship of a Wake Forest University faculty member across the summer months. The Wake Forest Research Fellowship will support projects mentored or co-mentored by Reynolda College faculty.
Read more about the Student Honors and Announcements in the Dean’s Office Digest:
Spring 2021 Honors & Announcements & Wake Forest Honors and Awards 2021 by Wake Forest