Updates – 2023

December 1, 2023 by ljudy@utk.edu

Faculty Updates

Rachel P. McCord received a College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Research/Creative Achievement Award and a grant from Science Alliance StART (Support for Affiliated Research Teams).
Gladys Alexandre and BCMB were given the 2022 NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology) Co-op and Career Center Outstanding Partner Award for involvement in mentoring Deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
Albrecht von Arnim will assume a part time (33%) appointment to serve the UT-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute to continue as Director of the Genome Science and Technology graduate program. BCMB faculty have been among the more active in training students in the intercollegiate GST program. The GST program took its place as the third sister program in the Bredesen Center next to the programs in Energy Science and Engineering and Data Science and Engineering.
Dan Roberts has retired from UT after over 35 years.
Keerthi Krishnan was honored with the Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year Award from Provost’s Office and an award for Outstanding Graduate Research Mentor from the Graduate Student Senate.

Heng Li (McCord Lab) and Boomer Russell (Barrera Lab) were awarded Graduate Advancement Training and Education (GATE) Fellowships from the Science Alliance.
Brandon Estrem (Wang Lab) was given a Division of Biology Cokkinias/Fite Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement by a graduate student.
Hannah Hughes, postdoc in the Alexandre lab, won best poster by a postdoc at the BLAST (Bacterial Locomotion And Signal Transduction) XVII meeting.
Debalina Acharyya (Prosser Lab) won first place in the 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
Morgan House (Joshi Lab) won best post at the FASEB ER structure and function meeting.
Boomer Russell (Barrera Lab) received the Graduate Student Senates Award for Excellence in Graduate Research.
Mike Mykins was awarded a Herbert Freidberg Nachlas Postdoctoral Fellowship. He also was a college nominee for the Jimmy and Ileen Cheek Graduate Student Medal of Excellence.

Congratulation to undergraduates who won Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EURēCA) awards in the Natural Sciences Division: Vincent Terta, Angela Jo, Benjamin Bridges, Alexandra McBryar, Joseph Martin, Shabre Eskridgé, Raegan van Wirt, Sanaz Hossain, Renata Dos Reis Marques, Christiane Alvarez.
Trinity Rose Shultz received an Appalachian Students Promoting the Integration of Research in Education (ASPIRE) scholarship to conduct summer research in the Krishnan lab
Breanna Ceesay received a Faculty Research Assistant Fellowship (FRAF) to conduct summer research in the Krishnan lab
Joseph Martin was awarded an Advanced Undergraduate Research Activity (AURA), to conduct summer research in the Krishnan lab

Jordan Roach (class of 2016) received a UT Volunteer 40 under 40 award during the annual reception.

Congratulations to the 2022-2023 MS and PhD Graduates: Yujie Ye, Amie Sankoh, Mike Mykins, Scott Carlew, Mark Edens, Anwesha Dasgupta.