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School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Honors and Awards

Our students and faculty earn national recognition for their research and achievements.

Academic Recognition

  • Loukia Karacosta (PhD)
    2011 Sigma Xi Research Award
  • Oswald A. Dadson (BS/MS); Tatiana Shaurova (BS)
    2011 Undergraduate Awards for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creativity
  • Marisa Hornbaker (BS)
    2011 Clifford C. Furnas Scholar-Athlete Award at the Celebration of Academic Excellence

Conference Awards

Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, 2011

  • Corie Ellison (PhD ’11)
    Best Student Abstract Award from the Occupational and Public Health Specialty Section
  • Corie Ellison (PhD ’11)
    Perry J. Gehring Best Graduate Student Abstract Award from the Risk Assessment Specialty Section

Summer Research Conference on Melatonin Receptors: Actions and Therapeutics, 2011

  • Shannon Clough (PhD, Neuroscience)
    Outstanding Research Poster Presentation among Graduate Students; Behavior, Biology and Chemistry Meeting
  • Jiabei Liu (PhD, previously BS/MS)
    “Lerner’s Permit” Award for Outstanding Poster Presentation on the History of Melatonin Receptor Research
  • Margarita L. Dubocovich, PhD
    Aaron B. Lerner Pioneer Award

Neuroscience Research Day, 2010

  • Gregory Conway (MA)
    Harold Brody Award for Best Poster

Travel Awards

  • Corie Ellison (PhD ’11)
    2011 Graduate Student Travel Award from the Regulatory and Safety Evaluation Specialty Section, Society of Toxicology
  • Hamzat Feshitan (BS/MS)
    2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow Travel Award—Experimental Biology
  • Hamzat Feshitan (BS/MS)
    2011 Undergraduate Travel Award, Dept of Pharmacology and Toxicology
  • Anthony J. Hutchinson, PhD (postdoc); Shannon Clough (PhD, neuroscience)
    2011 Travel Awards to Behavior, Biology and Chemistry: Translational Research in Addiction
  • Anthony J. Hutchinson, PhD; Ekue B. Adamah-Biassi and Shannon Clough (PhD students)
    2011 Travel Awards to the Summer Research Conference on Melatonin Receptors: Actions and Therapeutics
  • Marc J. Koyack, PhD
    2010 Young Scientist Travel Award from the American Chemical Society’s Younger Chemists Committee and the CIBA Foundation
  • Jingying Wang (PhD)
    AHA ATVB Travel Award for Young Investigators to Scientific Sessions for presenting her abstract during the 2010 AHA Scientific Session
  • Jingying Wang (PhD)
    2010 Allen Barnett Graduate Student Travel Award
  • Hamzat Feshitan (BS/MS)
    2010 Undergraduate Student Travel Award
  • Hui You (PhD)
    2009 Allen Barnett Graduate Student Travel Award

Faculty Awards

  • Alan J. Lesse, PhD
    2011 Faculty Teaching Award
  • Margarita L. Dubocovich, PhD
    2011 Distinguished Postdoc Mentor Award
  • Rajendram V. Rajnarayanan, PhD
    2010 Faculty Teaching Award