Awards
Our lab features some of the best and brightest students and post-doctoral
fellows around, and the accolades they have received reflect that.
- Najmuddin Gunja, BMES Graduate Student Award, 2008
- Benjamin Elder, 1st place, ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference Ph.D.
student podium competition, July 2008 (Keystone, CO)
- Benjamin Elder, 1st place, Rice University Institute of Biosciences and
Bioengineering Annual Symposium, student poster competition, July 1008
- Dena Wiltz, AGEP Fellowship, 2008
- Johannah Sanchez-Adams, AGEP Fellowship, 2008
- Donald Responte, NIH Biotech Fellowship, 2008
- Ben Lu, an undergraduate student in our lab, was chosen to participate
in the 2008 NanoJapan Program in Japan
- Gidon Ofek, Nanobiology Fellowship through the Gulf Coact Consortuum,
February 2008
- Gidon Ofek, 1st place, Keck Annual Research Conference, poster competition,
October 12, 2007
- Gidon Ofek, Nanobiology Fellowship through the Gulf Coast Consortium,
August 2007
- Gwendolyn Hoben, 1st place, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
3rd Annual Conference graduate poster competition, July 2007
- Roman Natoli, 3rd place, ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference Ph.D. student
podium competition, July 2007 (Keystone, CO)
- Chris Revell, 2nd place, ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference PH.D. student
poster competition, July 2007 (Keystone, CO)
- Najmuddin Gunja, 1st place, ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference Ph.D.
student poster competition, July 2007 (Keystone, CO)
- Ben Elder, NIH Technology Grant, June 2007
- Eugene Koay, 3rd place, Rice BIOE recruiting poster competition, March
2006
- Kyle Allen, 1st place, NSF IGERT poster competition, 2006
- Eugene Koay, 2nd place, NSF IGERT poster competition, 2006
- Zaven Sargsyan, 1st place, Undergraduate Research in Biosciences, poster
session, Fall 2005
- Zaven Sargsyan, 3rd place, IGERT Undergraduate research program, Summer
2005
- Roman Natoli, selected for participation in the NASE Exploration Systems
Mission Directorate Microbes in Space (MIS) Workshop, July 2005
- Dr. Michael Detamore, Best Thesis Prize, Physical Sciences and Mathematics,
Rice-TMC Chapter of Sigma Xi, 2005
- Jean Bao, 1st place, Division of Engineering, Rice Undergraduate Research
Symposium, 2005
- Alejandro Almarza, Winner of Bioengineering Graduate Recruiting Poster
Competition, 2005
- Dr. Rajesh Uthamanthil, Career Advancement Fellowship, Orthopaedic Research
Society, 2005
- Alejandro Almarza, Morse Fellowship, 2005
- Kyle Allen, 1st prize, NSF IGERT poster competition, 2005
- Varun Rachakonda (St. Johns High School, Houston, TX), semi-finalist,
Siemens Westinghouse Science Competition, 2004
- Rohan Balsaver (St. Johns High School, Houston, TX), semi-finalist, Siemens
Westinghouse Science Competition
- Danika Hayman, 1st place, BIOE 400, Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium,
2004
- Kyle Allen, recipient of NSF IGERT Fellowship, 2004
- Eugene Koay, recipient of NSF IGERT Fellowship, 2004
- Sriram Eleswarapu, 2nd place, Division of Engineering, Rice Undergraduate
Research Symposium, 2004
- Eric Darling, winner of the 2004 Second Annual Poster Competition (cellular
& molecular engineering)
- Sriram Eleswarapu, 2nd place, Division of Engineering, Rice Undergraduate
Research Symposium, 2003
- Sriram Eleswarapu, 1st place, BIOE 400, Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium,
2003
- Eric Darling, Michael Detamore, Corey Scott, and Adrian Shieh, BMES Student
Travel Awards, 2003
- Michael Detamore, recipient of the 2003 Nettie S. Autrey Fellowship
- Dr. Margaret French, recipient of NRSA NIH (NIAMS) research fellowship
2003-2006
- BMES Student Chapter, Rice University, Honorable Mention Award, BMES Annual
Meeting, 2002
- Sriram Eleswarapu, 1st place Co-Winner, NSF Rice IGERT Undergraduate Award,
2002
- Rohan Wagle, 1st place Co-Winner, NSF Rice IGERT Undergraduate Award,
2002
- Livia Van, 3rd place, NSF Rice IGERT Undergraduate Award, 2002
- Adam AufderHeide, recipient of NSF IGERT Fellowship, 2002
- Michael Detamore, recipient of Whitaker Foundation Fellowship and NSF
Fellowship, 2001
- BMES Student Chapter, Rice University, Honorable Mention Award, BMES Annual
Meeting, 2001
- Eugene Koay, Winner of BMES Whitaker Undergraduate Award, 2001
- Julie Horng and Adrian Shieh, BMES Student Travel Awards, 2001
- Adrian Shieh, NSF GK-12 Fellowship, 2001
- Adrian Shieh, recipient of Whitaker Foundation Fellowship, NDSEG Fellowship,
and Rice Presidential Fellowship, 2000