Honors & Awards
7th Annual CMDB Research Symposium
Congratulations to the outstanding student speakers at the Seventh Annual CMDB Research Symposium, held in Spring 2006:
First Place
Tuong “John” Ta and Ryan Smith
Second Place
Wendy Hung and Naotaka “Norton” Kitagawa
Best Talk by a First-Year Student
Lauren Fernandez and Randy Stout
Congratulations to the following CMDB Faculty who received honors for 2005-2006:
- Dr. Michael Adams — Recognition Award in Insect Physiology, Biochemistry, and Toxicology
- Dr. Julia Bailey-Serres — IGERT Award/ Fellow -AAAS Americal Society for the Advancement of Science
- Dr. Daniel Gallie — Fellow -AAAS Americal Society for the Advancement of Science
- Dr. Eugene Nothnagel — Elected to the UCR Academy of Distinguished Teachers
- Dr. Anthony Norman — UCR Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award
- Dr. Cengiz Ozkan — Research Recognition Award- Taiwanese American Aeronautics and Space Association (TAASA) and Regent's Faculty Fellowship and Development Award
- Dr. Mihri Ozkan — Distinguished Engineering Educator of the year award- National Engineers Council
- Dr. Vladimir Parpura — Senior Research Fellow - Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter
- Dr. Yinsheng Wang — 2005 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research Award
- Dr. Zhenbiao Yang — Fellow AAAS Americal Society for the Advancement of Science
- Dr. Jian-Kang Zhu — President's Chair Botany and Plant Sciences
Student Accomplishments
Shweta Puntambekar (Graduate Student) — Winter 2006
Shweta Puntambekar is only a second year graduate student in the Carson lab (since April 2005). However she has generated so much data that she was able to submit two abstracts to the 37th annual meeting of the American Society of Neurochemistry (ASN) which was held March 11-15, 2006 in Portland Oregon.
While she had originally planned to present her data solely in poster form, one of her abstracts was selected for oral presentation in the session devoted to "Hot Topics". Shweta gave an outstanding presentation to an international audience. Her poise and ability to easily discuss her data in this and the poster presentation forum were noted by many in the audience. All in all, Shweta represented the Carson Lab, the CMDB program and UCR very well!
Details about ASN and the recently completed meeting.
Past Faculty Awards
Dr. Betty Lord — Spring 2005 — Named Vice Provost for Academic Personnel
Dr. Jian-Kang Zhu — Spring 2005 — Distinguished Agricultural Alumni Award Purdue University
Dr. Mihri Ozkan — Spring 2005 — Emerging Scholar award for 2005 from the American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Dr. Linda L. Walling and Dr. Jian-Kang Zhu — Fall 2004 — Named 2004 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)