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| Teresa Elizabeth Haire, 1975 - 2006 |
Teresa Haire, a native Long Islander, graduated from high school summa cum laude. She attended SUNY Plattsburgh and graduated with B.S. degree in Biology in 1998. Her undergraduate research on the primary photoreceptor pigment of Euglena gracilis that is used for phototaxis, together with her work after graduation in a physician’s clinical laboratory in Sitka, Alaska, fueled her desire to pursue biomedical research aimed at curing human diseases. She became a doctoral student in the Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Program at Stony Brook University in the fall of 2003 and was the recipient of a University Graduate Fellowship.
Teresa began her dissertation research on the regulation of epithelial cell polarity during oncogenic transformation in Dr. Senthil Muthuswamy’s lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the summer of 2004. She was a superb experimentalist who did not shy away from applying new techniques and experimental approaches to her project, and she was deeply committed to her work. Teresa was an excellent speaker and teacher, and was well known for working long, hard hours in the lab including weekends and holidays.
Quite unexpectedly, Teresa died during her third year in the Program in 2006. She is remembered for her warm and gentle personality, generous spirit, optimism, and infectious laugh. The Teresa Haire Award was created in her memory and is given to a student who demonstrates one or more of these qualities: a passion for research, excellence as a teaching assistant, has demonstrated resilience in graduate school, is a leader among his or her peers.
Previous recipients:
2006 Betty Noel
2007 Sarit Lilo
2008 Kasey Karen
2009 Ying Zheng
2010 Yueting Zheng
2011 Nana Minkah
2013 Yueting Zheng
2014 Peter Chahales
2016 Arielle Bryan
2017 Erika Orner
2018 Aniska Chikhalya
2019 Kyle Smith
2021 Peter Todd Benziger, Carla Lanze
2022 Cody Kempen
2023 Lia Parkin
2024 Smruti Mishra
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