2023-2024 MCB Graduate Student Awards

Fall 2023 MCB Graduate Travel Award

Josette Nammour received the Fall award in recognition of their outstanding graduate seminar. This bi-annual award provides support to students for conference attendance to enrich their graduate program study and is offered on a competitive basis to the most highly qualified student.


2024 MCB Summer Fellowship Awards

Claire M. Berg Graduate Fellowship in Genetics – Danielle Arsenault,  Katelyn DeNegre, Samantha Peterson

Arthur Chovnick Graduate Fellowship in Genetics – Michelle Neitzey 

Richard C. Crain, Jr. Memorial Fellowship – Ashley Reed, Richard Whitehead

Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship in MCB and Pharmaceutical Sciences – Michael Griffith

Dr. Edward A. and Dr. Lamia H. Khairallah Graduate Fellowship – Josette Nammour (MCB), Michael Samulevich (Pharm), Aniket Wahane (Pharm), Hangyu (Isabella), Wu (Pharm)

Jean Lucas-Lenard Special Summer Fellowship in Molecular Cell Biology – Trevor Hunter

Jean Lucas-Lenard Special Summer Fellowship in Biochemistry – Camille Pearce, Morgan Wagner

Philip I. Marcus Graduate Student Fellowship in Virology – Ian Barron

Pfizer Summer Fellowship in Molecular and Cell Biology – Alyssa Coulter, Daniel Phillips, Kaylah Samuelson

Antonio H. & Marjorie J. Romano Graduate Education Fellowship – Sarah Pasqualetti, Caroline Vieira Da Silva

Todd M. Schuster Award in Molecular and Cell Biology – Jolie Atwood, Ryan Frier

Biohaven Pharmaceuticals Fellowship – Giancarlo Montovano, Nadine Lebek, Sophia Gosselin, Jacob Kellermeier

Learn more about these fellowships


2023/2024 Outstanding TA Awards

Corey Theodore and Richard Whitehead


2024 Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Awards

Alyssa Coulter, Ryan Drennan, Jacob Kellermeier, Nadine Lebek, Michelle Neitzey


Conference Participation Award

Fall 2023
Alyssa Coulter, Katelyn DeNegre, Yutian Feng, Daniel Phillips

Spring 2024
John Briseno, Nadine Lebek, Michelle Neitzey


DEMI Awards

Fall 2023
Michael Griffith, Derrick Kamp

Spring 2024
Katelyn DeNegre, EmilyFuller, Jeffrey Tamucci, Nidhi Vijayan