Ravi Atreya - MD/PhD program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Julian Azar - doctoral student, theoretical chemistry, UC Berkeley, CA
Emma Bailey - research technician, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, North Carolina
Elizabeth Baker - master's student, Psychology, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
Danielle Buck - BMCB program, UA, plans to pursue a PhD in cardiovascular research.
Christina Ceccato - Immunology Graduate Program, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
Amanda Condon - Postbaccalaureate Fellowship at the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disorders
Sarah Cook - doctoral student, Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Lisa Danowski - medical student, UA
Carolyn Donohue - applying to medical school for Fall 2010 admission
Ashley Dyett - pharmacy student, South University, Savannah, GA
Karen Eaton - accelerated master's program, Biochemistry, UA
Aly Elezaby - MD/PhD Program, Boston University
Jason Espinoza - working/medical student, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Alice Ferng - doctoral student, Physiological Sciences, UA
Robert Gibboni - doctoral student, Neuroscience, UC Berkeley, CA
Aarthi Goverdhan - lab technician, Schroeder lab, UA; applying to graduate programs in MCB
Miranda Gray - doctoral student, Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Reney Henderson - medical student, University of Maryland
Mayuko Ikehara - medical school in Japan
Wendy Ingram - doctoral student, Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley, CA
Lena Kyman - doctoral student, Audiology, UNC Chapel Hill, NC
Lindsay LaPresto - medical student, UA
Mark Leick - medical student,  University of Wisconsin-Madison or Georgetown
Carmen Lucero - seeking a criminalist position; applying to graduate school in Forensic Science
Derek Mires - PharmD/MBA student, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Clayton Mosher - doctoral student, Physiology, UA; NSF doctoral fellowship
Akshay Muralidhar - medical student, UA
Sarah Nelson - MD/PhD student, University of Colorado, Boulder
Emily Park - working as a scribe at UMC, while applying to medical school
Megan Paul - medical student, UA
Blake Randolph - taking a year off while applying to medical school
Craig Sheedy - medical student, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; NCAA Scholarship
Nick Veomett - doctoral student, Pharmacology, Cornell (Weill College of Medical Sciences), NY
Mia Williams - Intramural Research Training Award, National Institute of Health, Bethesda
Phillip Zinsli - working, applying to graduate programs in chemical engineering

If you are graduating and we have not listed you, please call or e-mail and fill us in!

Scholarships, Fellowships, Awards, Honors

UBRP students have fared really well in nationally competitive scholarship and fellowship competitions this year...here is the tally so far (and if there are other awards out there that we don't know about, please let us know so we can bask in your reflected glory!):

Arshed Al-Obeidi received a Goldwater Scholarship

Brittany Choate received Honorable Mention in the Udall Competition

Kelli Davies, a UBRP alum, now at Stanford, received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship*

Mounir Koussa received a $3K Microscopy Society of America Undergraduate Research Scholarship

Elise Madrid, BRAVO student, was accepted to the NIH academy

Clayton Mosher received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship* (which he will use to continue
working with his UBRP mentor, Dr. Gothard)

Craig Sheedy received an NCAA Scholarship

Kristin Sikkink, a UBRP alum, now at the University of Oregon, received an NSF Graduate Research
Fellowship*

* NSF Graduate Research Fellowships come with a $30,000/year stipend and $10,500/year cost-of-education allowance