Awards and Accomplishments
2022-2023 Microbiology Scholarship and Award Recipients
Front row (left to right): Katelynn Wang, Katy Rusche, Madisen Kimbrel, Devon Popson, Rochelle Pereira, Kristina Gara, Annabelle Hauss, Reily Combs
Back row (left to right): John Fazio, Aminul Islam, Natalie Young, Benjamin Nagle, Maria Spaeth, Speaker: Dr. Janine Danko, Malory Wolfe, Eckhardt Karsten, Max Brenner, Shaun Jiang
A variety of scholarships and academic awards are given annually to Miami Microbiology undergraduate and graduate students, including the latest recipients.
In addition, several Microbiology undergraduates received research awards this academic year from the Undergraduate Research Award program, the University Summer Scholars program, and the Howard Hughes Summer Internship program. Their accomplishments are highlighted in Undergraduate Research.
Miami Microbiology graduate students receive presentation awards
Three Minute Thesis is a research communication competition that challenges graduate students to present a semester's worth of research and study in a three-minute oral presentation with language appropriate for a nonspecialist audience. MBI graduate student Steven Distelhorst won the competition in 2015, and colleagues Wei Li and Chris Sedlacek were top ten finalists.
At the 2016 Ohio Branch Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Heather Beck won the Donald C. Cox Award for Research Excellence for the best podium presentation and Greg Cook received the J. Robie Vestal Award for Research Excellence for the best environmental/evolution poster.
In the 2014 Miami University Graduate Research Forum, Amber Teufel was a recipient of a top three oral presentation award
Former Miami Microbiology majors recognized by NSF
Two Miami Microbiology alumni pursuing graduate degrees at other institutions received Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. Ashley Richards is currently in graduate study at the University of Louisville, and Mark Noviski is at the University of California, San Francisco.