Grad student awards
The following EEB students received awards from Biology (open to all UTK biology departments):
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The following EEB students received awards from Biology (open to all UTK biology departments):
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Jaime Call, a staff member in the EEB main office, has been named as UTK’s most courteous employee for Sept. 2011. Note that UTK has roughly 15,000 employees, so the competition is fierce.
Below is some of the information used in her nomination:
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Jaime Call, a staff member in the EEB main office, has been named as UTK’s most courteous employee for Sept. 2011. Note that UTK has roughly 15,000 employees, so the competition is fierce.
Below is some of the information used in her nomination:
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Melissa Cregger, a PhD student in the Aimee Classen lab, was just awarded the 2011 Marvin L. Wesely Award from the Department of Energy. The award was established in honor of the late Dr. Marvin L. Wesely, Argonne National Laboratory senior meteorologist and chief scientist of the DOE Atmospheric Chemistry Program, who died Jan. 20, 2003 from heart cancer. The Marvin L. Wesely Fellowship is awarded to the Graduate Research Environmental Fellow (GREF) who has made the best use of their DOE mentor and facilities in improving the quality of his/her research efforts. The award is given for a one-year period to a current GREF fellow who has been supported to do global change research as part of the Global Change Education Program.
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EEB had its annual awards ceremony on Friday, May 6, 2011. Past EEB outstanding undergrad Jessica Welch took photos; department head Gary McCracken modified trophies for the recipients. Here are links to all the relevant posts:
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The awards for excellence in progress towards a degree went to Romina Dimarco [not pictured], Mark Genung, and Katie Stuble.
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The award for outstanding student paper went to Emmi Felker-Quinn.
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The Jim Tanner award for outstanding dissertation was given to Premal Shah. One of Premal’s dissertation chapters (coauthored with advisor Michael Gilchrist) will be appearing in a future issue of PNAS.
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The award for a biology GTA was given to Lauren Wilmoth for her teaching and leadership as a teaching assistant in biology classes.
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This year’s recipients of the Cokinnius grad student awards were Melissa Cregger and Phillip Hollingsworth.