Undergraduate Program Research Awards

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology undergraduates may qualify for departmental, college, university, and national awards.

Departmental Awards

BMB Undergraduate Research Awards are given to MSU BMB undergraduate majors to pursue research in the laboratory of a BMB faculty member. For the 2006-2007 academic year, there were two $2000 awards and one $1000 award. One BMB student was also selected as the Outstanding Undergraduate Student.

The BMB department solicits nominations for awards each Spring Semester. Department and College awardees are honored at the BMB Annual Student Awards (Boezi) Banquet in April.

2006-2007 BMB $2,000 Undergraduate Research Award Winners:

Andrea Stavoe with Dr. Robert Larkin
Ardian Coku with Dr. Robert Last
   
2006-2007 BMB $1,000 Undergraduate
Research Award Winner:		 2006-2007 BMB Outstanding
Undergraduate Student:

Jun Seok Lee with Dr. Lee Kroos
Seth Dickey with Dr. John Wang
 

College of Natural Science Scholarships

The following students have been awarded scholarships for 2007-2008 by the College:

Marci Baranski - William A. Sells, Jr. Endowed Scholarship
Chong Hoon Kim - Dallas J. Chapin Endowed Scholarship
Ryan Mayle - Ramon F. and Dorothy F. Rolf Scholarship
(Information on MSU scholarships may be found at: https://scholendow.ais.msu.edu/student/ScholSearch.Asp?)

University Awards

The University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum provides an opportunity for undergraduate researchers to present their work in the form of a poster or oral presentation, or to showcase their creations.

2006-2007 BMB student recipients of UURAF awards were:

Poster Session - Grand Prize
Ramy Goueli, “The Role of Src-Homology-3 in the Activation Mechanism of MLK3.”

 

Poster Session - First Place
Seth Dickey, “Interaction of Galectins and TF II-I:  Their Role in pre-mRNA Splicing.”


Poster Session - Merit
Allison Blaine, “Assessment of Chloroplast Gene Function through Open Reading Frame Variability.”
Andrea Stavoe, “A Role for the Mg-Chelatase Complex in Chloroplast Biogenesis in Arabidopsis Thaliana”
Farid Nossoni, “Studies on the Protein-Substrate Hydrophobic Interactions of the Retinoid Binding Proteins”


Oral Presentation - First Place
Elizabeth Bartlett, "Bovine Hereditary Zinc Deficiency and Identification of a Splice Site Mutation and Evaluation of Functioanl Consequences."

 

2006-2007 BMB student recipients of MSU Board of Trustees’ Awards:
Elizabeth Bartlett

National Awards

Students in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology have also won national awards:

2006 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship

Anjali Rohatgi

2005-2006 Awards
2004-2005 Awards
2001-2004 Awards