The UW SACNAS chapter has received the SACNAS 2013 Distinguished Chapter award
Dr. Joseph Felsenstein has been awarded the 2013 International Prize for Biology by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Brad Coe and Tzitziki Lemus Vergara have received the Parker Travel Award for best posters at the 2013 department retreat. Ariel Altaras received honorable mention
Anna Sunshine has been named graduate representative to the Genetics Society of America committee on Women in Genetics
Jeff Vierstra and Andrew Stergachis have been named Finalists for the Epstein Award of the American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG). 18 finalists were selected from over 600 applications nationwide. Award winners will be selected at the October ASHG meeting in Boston
Genome Sciences Education Outreach
Dr. Maureen Munn, director of Genome Sciences Education Outreach, and colleagues in the UW Institute for Science and Math were awarded the July 2013 Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction. GS faculty Josh Akey, Debbie Nickerson, and Gail Jarvik were co-PIs on the science education projects that were featured in the Science article.
Science | AAAS news
Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos
Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos has been awarded the 2013-14 Litchfield Lectureship of Oxford University. He will spend a week in residence at Oxford during the academic year, and will deliver the University-wide Litchfield Lecture.
Shreeram Akilesh, MD, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the Stamatoyannopoulos lab and Instructor of Pathology, is a recipient of a 2013 Damon Runyon Fellowship, one of only two given nationwide for physician-scientists
GS grad Daniel Kim has been awarded an F31 predoctoral fellowship from NIMH
