A wide variety of external awards to M&I graduate students will be featured at the Annual Graduate Student Recognition Celebration (http://gradschool.unc.edu/events/recognition/).
Winners of national fellowships and research awards:
Jennifer McGraw (Heise lab): NRSA Fellowship (F31), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Brandon Anjuwon-Foster (Tamayo lab): NRSA Fellowship (F31), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Perry Tsai (Garcia-Martinez lab): NRSA Fellowship (F30), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Morgan Goheen (Meshnick lab): NRSA Fellowship (F30), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Kyle Arend (Moorman lab): NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Laurel Kartchner (Cairns/Maile lab): NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program; NAS-USAID Research and Innovation Fellowship Program
Julia Dunn (Cairns/Maile lab): American Association of Immunologists Careers in Immunology Fellowship
Melinda Grosser (Richardson lab): American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship
Nicholas Vitko (Richardson lab): American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship
Winners of travel awards to national conferences:
Melissa Ellermann (Sartor lab): American Society for Microbiology Travel Award
Julia Dunn (Cairns/Maile lab): Coalition for Life Science Capitol Hill Day Travel Award
Denise Allard-Trout (M. Su lab): Peripheral Nerve Society/Inflammatory Nerve Consortium Meeting Travel Fellowship