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Recent Awards to Individuals
Associated with the Department of VCAPP
GOVERNOR SELECTS NEUROSCIENCE STUDENT AS REGENT:
Washington State's Governor Gregoire has
appointed Derick En'Wezoh of Pullman to the 2008-2009 Student Regent
post for Washington State University. His appointment as student
regent was effective
July 8, 2008 and will end June 30, 2009. En’Wezoh is a student in
the College of Veterinary Medicine, majoring in neuroscience with a
pre-med emphasis. He will be a junior during the 2008–09 academic
year. He was a member of DECA and the National Honor Society while
in high school. At WSU, he served as Associated Students of
Washington State University senator in his sophomore year and
volunteers with several organizations, including Relay for Life, the
American Red Cross and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
He is also a volunteer with senior citizen organizations in Pullman.
The board of regents serves as the governing body for Washington
State University. Student regents serve a one-year term.
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MENTOR
AWARD
Becky Morton was the winner of the AP Mentor of the Year award given
recently as part of the Women in Leadership Forum (see
related information). Also nominated
(from our department) were Sandi Brabb (AP), Pam Colbert (AP), and Barbara
Sorg (Faculty). Congratulations to all of these selfless mentors.
APAC AWARD
Sandra (Sandi) Brabb has received one of two APAC Service awards (see
related story).
CVM AWARD
Jeanne Jensen received one of the CVM Employee Excellence Awards announced
at the annual Dean's CVM barbecue (see related story)
CRIMSON SPIRIT AWARD
Laura Kinslow was honored with the Crimson Spirit Award. She was WSU's
July sprit of the month awardee (see more information).
TEACHING AWARD
Patrick Wilson, Patricia Talcott and Leslie Sprunger of VCAPP were selected as
Jerry Newberry Teaching
Scholars for the Fall 2007 semester of teaching in the College of
Veterinary Medicine. This award is given for excellence in teaching during
the first 3 years of the veterinary curriculum.
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/awards/faculty07.aspx
GRANTS
Anita Vasavada, assistant professor of bioengineering and VCAPP, recently
received an NSF Career grant to examine postural stability of the head and
neck. See
related article.
PONCIN SCHOLARS
3rd Year Award Renewal: Jennifer Schei,
VCAPP/Physics PhD student (Dr. David Rector, advisor)
2nd Year Award Renewals: Deborah Duricka,
VCAPP/Neuroscience PhD Student (Dr. Michael Varnum, advisor)
1st Year Awards: Huan Zhao, VCAPP/Neuroscience
PhD Student (Dr. Steve Simasko, advisor)
(see other graduate Student Awards:
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/awards/grad.aspx
OTHER SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS
Rose Marie Larios earned the Dr. Philip Gollnick Scholarship (April 2006).
Alexandra Bond, incoming Neuroscience student, has been honored as
the recipient of the Neuroscience Endowed Scholarship.
Alexandra's interests as a neuroscience undergraduate student are in
the pre-medicine/dentistry area. A number of additional
undergraduate neuroscience awards have been received over the last year.
Those honored with scholarships or special recognition include Derick
En'Wezoh, Darren Roland Plummer, Omar Bayomy, Alexandra Bond, Emiko Namatame,
Rachel WAnty, Jamie Gaber, Steven Houmes, Katrina Huskie, Roxanne Rich,
Rajat Singh, Carlyn Claire Zylstra, and Jessica Lee Lac. Please see
recipient details:
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/awards/undergrad.aspx
Congratulations to five of our neuroscience students who were announced as
2008 Auvil Fellow award winners. Thirty-one students were selected for
the award and each will receive $1000 to help fund their research.
Neuroscience award winners include
Rachelle Edwards
(mentor Catherine Ulibarri); Stephen Houmes (mentor Barbara Sorg);
Stephanie Leggett (mentor Michael Varnum; Timothy Lyons (mentor
Michiyo Hirai-psychology); and Amy Van Nortwick (mentor David
Rector).
For additional information:
http://undergraduateresearch.wsu.edu/newsevents/news/auvilawards10-08/
OTHER HONORS:
John "Jack" Hershey successfully defended his PhD in the Neuroscience
program Tuesday, November 4th (2008). His dissertation is titled
"Minimal Disuse Muscle Atrophy and Seasonal Alteration in the Calcium
Handling System in Skeletal Muscle of Hibernating Brown Bears." Jack's
major advisor is Dr. DAvid Lin, Dept. of VCAPP and Biological Systems
Engineering.
Neuroscience's very own Min-Kyung Park, who graduated this spring and will
be starting vet school here in the fall, is featured on the 2008-2009 WSU
Catalog (see
link). What a fun cover!
Thu Dinh was recently honored for her 25 years of
service to Washington State U#OTHER_HONORS:niversity. She received a service award
and a quarter century club membership certificate. Thu has been with
Sue Ritter's lab all of those 25 years.
Travis Brown successfully defended his PhD. in the
Neuroscience Program on Thursday, June 12, 2008. His dissertation is
titled "The Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases in Memory Reconsolidation."
Travis' major advisor is Dr. Barbara Sorg.
Alexander Carvajal successfully defended his M.S. thesis
in the Neuroscience Program on Friday, June 13th, 2008. His
thesis is titled "Temporal and Spatial Dependency of High Frequency Wave
Collisions in Rat Somatosensory Cortex ." Alexander’s major advisor is
Dr. David Rector.
Victor Leyva-Grado
successfully defended his Ph.D. in the Veterinary Science Program on
Tuesday, July 8, 2008. His dissertation is titled “Neuropathogenesis of
the Acute Phase Response to Influenza A Virus in Mice.“ Victor’s major
professor is Dr. James Krueger, VCAPP.
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