Student Awards
May 2013
Edward N. Pugh, Jr. Award - Mark Barry
Eliot Stellar Award - Katherine Liu and Geena Ianni
Steven J. Fluharty Award - Michael Chan
May 2012
Edward N. Pugh, Jr. Award - Taylor Olson
Eliot Stellar Award - Samy Belfer and Daniel Ramos
Steven J. Fluharty Award - Shayna Friedman
May 2011
Edward N. Pugh, Jr. Award - Joseph Yellin
Eliot Stellar Award - Rebecca Freedman
Steven J. Fluharty Award - Josh Merel
May 2010
Edward N. Pugh, Jr. Award - Rosa Cui
Eliot Stellar Award - Michael Sulewski and Rachel Arakawa
Steven J. Fluharty Award - Alyssa Yeager
Dean’s Scholar: Benjamin Laitman
Fulbright Scholar: Monisha Chakravarthy
May 2009
Edward N. Pugh, Jr. Award - Hayley Walker
Eliot Stellar Award - Allison Rao
Steven J. Fluharty Award - Joan Btesh
Dean’s Scholar: Hayley Walker
May 2008
Edward N. Pugh, Jr. Award - Devan Jaganath
Eliot Stellar Award - Alexander Small
Steven J. Fluharty Award - Sarah Leinwand
CURF Awards
Congratulations to BBB majors who have received undergraduate research awards through the Center for Undergraduate Research Funding (CURF):
Samuel Belfer who was awarded a Louis H Castor, M.D., C’48 Undergraduate Research Grant for his project, " Ice-chewing as a novel treatment for attention and working memory deficits in iron-deficient anemics” and was also awarded the Rose Award for his research project, "Worm-in-a-drop approach for high throughput long-term monitoring of C. elegans quiescent behavior"
Lauren Ambler, who received the Ruth Marcus Kanter College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant for her project, "NMDA receptor activity in amygdala and social function"
Shayna Friedman, who received the Pincus-Magaziner Family Undergraduate Research and Travel Fund for her project, "The Role of GluA1 AMPA Receptor Subunit Trafficking in the Nucleus Accumbens in Cocaine Priming-Induced Reinstatement"
Emma Kaplan, who received the Pincus-Magaziner Family Undergraduate Research and Travel Fund for her project, "Cross-hemispheric Plasticity of the Zebra Finch Song System Following Unilateral RA Lesion in Juvenile Birds"
Cara Piccoli, who received the Pincus-Magaziner Family Undergraduate Research and Travel Fund for her project, "Nr1 expression may mediate sociability in C57BL/6J mice"
Sheila Shanmugan, who received the Pincus-Magaziner Family Undergraduate Research and Travel Fund for her project, "Utilizing fMRI to Determine Effects of Vyvanse on Memory, Attention, and Brain Activity in Menopausal Women"
Alison Lai who was awarded a Goldfeder Family Undergraduate Research Grant for her project, “Confirmation and Analysis of Rare Variants in the Serine Rich Domain of the Ankyrin 3 Gene in a European American Population with Bipolar Disorder, Type I”
Arielle Spellun who was awarded a Pincus-Magaziner Family Undergraduate Research and Travel Fund Grant for her project, “Song Production and Modulation by the nTS Region of the Zebra Finch Brainstem”
Danielle Daitch, who received the College Alumni Society Research Grant for her project, "The Effects of Language on Perceptual Processing of Color"
Diane Dao, who received the Association of Alumnae Scholars Rosemary D. Mazzatenta Award for her project, "Research Recruitment, HPV, and Cervical Cancer Prevention in Asian American Women"
Lucy LaCour, who received the College Alumni Society Research Grant for her project, "Social Influences on Reproductive Stimulation in Cowbirds"
Xiaoyn Linda Yin, who received the College Alumni Society Research Grant for her project, "Memory Encoding in the Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampus: Effect of Fear Conditioning on Spatial Memory and Place Field Remapping"
Shira Lerner, who received the College Alumni Society Pincus-Magaziner Family Undergraduate Research and Travel Grant for her project, “The Effects of Psychosocial Stressors on Hypertension Control at a Student-Run Free Clinic"
Ben Laitman, who received the Rose Award for his project, “Reduced Gamma Range Activity at REM Entry and Termination in Fear-Conditioned Wistar-Kyoto Compared to Wistar Rats May Underlie REM Fragmentation”
Rachel Gittelman, who received the 2010 Penn Undergraduate Climate Action Grant for her project, “The Role of ALDH3A1 Variation in Climatic Droplet Keratopathy in the Mapucha Indians of Argentina"
