Distinguished Service Award

The Distinguished Service Award was established in 2004 to recognize one or more graduate students in the Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Program who have extended themselves beyond the scope of graduate education and research by participation in extracurricular activities of the Program. Examples of contributions made by previous recipients of this award include assistance in graduate student recruitment, participation in orientation week activities, and service as a Graduate Student Organization member or member of the Program's Executive Committee.

Previous recipients:

2004 Misty Saracino, Jens Grabenstein
2005 Indy Chabra, Doug Gladue
2006 Amanda Ullman
2007 Kasey Karen
2008 Betty Noel
2009 Kai Wu, Amy Kullas
2010 Matthew Hatkoff
2011 Matthew Hatkoff, Kathleen DelGiorno
2012 Peter Chahales
2013 Jason Tam
2015 Rebecca Bridges
2016 Erik Kopping
2017 Nick Van Skike
2018 Erika Orner
2019 Steven Ketchum
2021 Kara Senson
2022 Levi Krausert
2023 Betty Du
2024 Anand Mathur, Craig Podszus, Sean Riley


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