2013-14 Awards Ceremony May 20, 2014 Opening comments from Eric Alani-Chair Introduce New Employees Chun Han-Weill Ruth Ley NONE Retirement Peter Hinkle June 30th, 2014-over 40 years at Cornell University Name Award to be Received-Staff Lin Lin Casey Moore Pam Gillow Robin Lampman Ross Resnick Janis Werner Steve Sparling 10 years of service 15 years of service 15 years of service 25 years of service 30 years of service 30 years of service Calvo Staff Award Name Ken Kemphues Linda Nicholson Award to be Received-Faculty 2014 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities Estevan Fuertes Award for Outstanding Faculty Partner Ruth Ley International Society for Microbial Ecology(ISME) Young Investigator Award Kelly Liu Named by a Cornell Merrill Presidential Scholar-Devin McMahon as a Cornell Faculty member who most significantly contributed to her Cornell Experience Introduce New Faculty Name Award to be Received-Graduate Students Eric Strobel-Roberts Greg Booth-Lis Joel Brown-Garcia Carolyn Fisher-Nicholson CALS Outstanding Teaching Award CALS Outstanding Teaching Award CALS Outstanding Teaching Award-OUB Rita & Joe Calvo Teaching Award Jen Apger-McGlaughon-Wolfner Rita & Joe Calvo Teaching Award Hojoong Kwak-"Precise maps of RNA polymerase reveal how promoters direct initiation and pausing" Science 339:950 (2013) Prior Lis Lab Graduate student Chenxi Tian-Tian, C., Shi, H., Xiong, S., Hu, F., Xiong, W. and Liu, J. (2013) The neogenin/DCC homolog UNC-40 promotes BMP signaling via the RGM protein DRAG-1 in C. elegans. Development 140: 40704080. Epub 2013 Sept 4. PMCID: Chen Cheng-Pch2 is a hexameric ring ATPase that remodels the chromosome axis protein Hop1 Jacob P. Tome-Lis Najla Al-Sweel-Alani Ebere Joseph-Nicholson Angelina Noriega-Brown Tao Sun LPS Award-BMCB Include titles of papers LPS Award-GGD Include titles of papers Wellnitz Award(1st authored paper last year) Include Titles George P. Hess Travel Award-$500 The Harry and Samuel Mann Outstanding Graduate Student Award-$20,000 Douglas Award Douglas Award Plant Science Senior Graduate Student Award.This is an annual award established to honor outstanding senior graduate students studying in the Plant Sciences at Cornell University. Students are selected based on their academic, research, teaching and achievements as well as on their potential to continue an outstanding career in the Plant Sciences. Tim West-Alani Awarded a supplement to Alani NIH grant Carolyn Jablonowski-Smolka Provost Diversity Fellowship Alise Muok-(MBCB) & Tiffany St. Bernard (GGD) NSF Predoc Fellowship Maria Liberti(joining Locasale lab) & Rebecca Simpson(joining Feigenson lab)-1st year students Name Sara Di Rienzi-Ley Angela Poole-Ley Tim Connallon-Clark Julien Ayroles-Clark NSF Predoc Fellowship honorable mention Myat Lin-Hanson Simone White-Wolfner Award to be Received-Postdocs Life Sciences Foundation Research Fellowship 3CPG Fellowship Assistant Professorship at Monash University in Australia Assistant Professor at Princeton University in NJ EMBO travel Award for SF-EMBO Conference on Biology of Plastids-Towards a Blueprint for Synthetic Organelles in Poland in June 2014 Diversity supplement to Wolfner & Clark grant Name Award to be Received-Undergraduates Hannah De Jong-Ley Lab Academic excellence in double major award from CALS Cameron McConkey-Ley Lab Sandy Mattei-Wolfner lab 2 research awards from CALS, 1 from the Dextra Undergraduate Research Endowment and 1 from the CU Agricultural Experiment Station NSF Grad Fellowship for next year