Jawuanna McAllister received the 2023 Social Justice Award at the 2023 Graduate Diversity & Inclusion Awards and Recognition Celebration. This award honors Jawuanna’s demonstrated commitment to identifying and addressing inequities, creating avenues of access, advancing diversity and inclusion, and/or promoting human rights within and beyond Cornell.
Ky’ara Carr received an Exemplary Service Award for Advanced Career Student at the 2023 Graduate Diversity & Inclusion Awards and Recognition Celebration. This award honors Ky’ara’s demonstrated track record of exemplary service to the Cornell graduate and professional student community, especially in the areas of diversity, inclusion, outreach, and student engagement.
Ari Broad received an Exemplary Service Award for Advanced Career Student at the 2023 Graduate Diversity & Inclusion Awards and Recognition Celebration. This award honors Ari’s demonstrated track record of exemplary service to the Cornell graduate and professional student community, especially in the areas of diversity, inclusion, outreach, and student engagement.
Gerardo Arroyo has been awarded an NIH F31 grant – Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award – through the National Cancer Institute. The Kirschstein-NRSA program seeks to support mentored research training of promising predoctoral students with potential to develop into a productive, independent research scientists while they are conducting their dissertation research. Gerardo is mentored by Robert Weiss, Department of Biomedical Sciences.
Saket Bagde (Class of 2018) received 2022 Porter Prize for Research Excellence from the American Society for Cell Biology. This award is given to one graduate student on the basis of “individual scientific excellence, and the creativity and novelty of the research described.” Saket is mentored by Chris Fromme.
Bhargav Sanket’s first author research paper entitled “Pitx2 Patterns an Accelerator-brake Mechanical Feedback through Latent TGFB to Rotate the Gut” was recognized LPS Best Paper of the Year by a graduate student in the field of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology (BMCB). Bhargav’s paper was published in the September 23, 2022 issue of Science. Bhargav is mentored by Natasza Kurpios.
Saket Bagde (Class of 2018) was presented with the George P. Hess Travel Award for 2023. Saket is mentored by Chris Fromme, who nominated him for this award.
Jumana Badar (Class of 2018) was awarded the 2023 Harry & Samuel Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award. This award recognizes an outstanding 3rd or 4th year BMCB graduate student who has made substantial progress on their dissertation research and who has excellent scientific and personal communication skills to present their research to both specialists and non-specialists. Jumana is mentored by Marcus Smolka.
Nathan Korson (Class of 2017) received the Rita & Joe Calvo Teaching Award for his support of students in BIOMG 2800, Lectures in Genetics and Genomics.
Will Comstock (Class of 2019) has been awarded an NIH F31 grant – Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award – through the National Cancer Institute.
The purpose of this Kirschstein-NRSA program is to enable promising predoctoral students with potential to develop into a productive, independent research scientists, to obtain mentored research training while conducting dissertation research.
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