Jordan Smith Receives 2026 Thomas H. Kunz Award
Jordan Smith of the Traniello Lab recently received the 2026 Thomas H. Kunz Award. The Kunz Award recognizes and celebrates exemplary contributions by an early or mid-career scientist to the study of bats, including measurable impacts on bat research and/or conservation, student mentoring, public education, and collaborations. Read about Jordan’s research below! The unusually broad […]
2026 Warren-McLeod Semester Fellowship Winners
Paige Becker of the Buston Lab, Erin Frates of the Marlow Lab, Ninon Martinez of the Finnerty Lab, and Ally Swank of the Davies Lab are this year’s recipients of Warren-McLeod Semester Fellowships. The Warren-McLeod Graduate Fellowship in Marine Science was established in 1990 by Patricia Warren (the granddaughter of BU’s 1st President, William Fairfield […]
Jiratchaya Thanayangyuen Receives 2026 Denton Award
Jiratchaya “Janice” Thanayangyuen of the Tay Lab was selected as the winner of the 2026 Denton Award for her master’s research thesis in Biology titled “Sex Differences in Microglial Responses Tt Diffuse and Dense-core Amyloid-β Plaques in 5xfad Mice.” This award is given for excellence in scholarship and research accomplishment during a master’s thesis under the mentorship of a […]
Maya Peters Kostman Receives 2026 I. Alden Macchi Award
Maya Peters Kostman, MCBB PhD candidate of the of the Larkin Lab, was selected as the winner of the 2026 I. Alden Macchi Award for excellence in the field of regulatory biology. Maya studies the role of membrane potential in bacteria coping with nutrient stress. Aerobic microbes produce most of their energy via the electron transport […]
JK Da-Anoy Receives 2026 Belamarich Dissertation Writing Award
JK Da-Anoy of the Davies Lab recently received the 2026 Belamarich Dissertation Writing Award. This award complements the Belamarich Award, and is given to support an outstanding PhD student through the dissertation writing stage. JK studies the role of innate immunity in cnidarian stress biology, with a focus on how symbiosis and sex shape immune […]
Cristina Harry Receives 2026 Master’s Research Award
Cristina Harry of the Traniello Lab is this year’s recipient of the Master’s Research Award. This award provides a one-semester Research Assistantship to a continuing Biology MS student who stands out in their field of research. Cristina studies gustatory polyphenisms between subcastes of the leaf cutter ant species, Atta cephalotes. Leaf cutter ants have a unique social […]
Guangmei Liu Receives 2026 Belamarich Award
Dr. Guangmei Liu of the McCall Lab was selected as the winner of the 2026 Belamarich Award for her doctoral dissertation in Biology titled “Investigation of Neuroinflammation and Selective Neuronal Vulnerability in A Glial Phagocytosis-Deficient Drosophila Model.” Guangmei’s dissertation research combined computational tool development, mechanistic studies, and transgenic model generation to uncover how defective glial […]
Sabrina Samad Shoily Receives AAUW Fellowship
Biology PhD student Sabrina Samad Shoily of the Garcia-Marcos Lab recently received an International Fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). This fellowship promotes education and equity for women by investing in international applicants who will be pursuing postgraduate studies or research in the U.S., with the intention of applying their expertise, professional skills, and leadership in the context of their home countries. Sabrina’s research focuses on developing biosensors for detecting G protein-coupled […]
Mu-Han Chen and Ninon Martinez Awarded Graduate Research Fellowships by the International Coral Reef Society
PhD student Mu-Han Chen of the Davies Lab and PhD student Ninon Martinez of the Finnerty Lab were both recently awarded Graduate Research Fellowships by the International Coral Reef Society. This award provides funding to aid in the cost of research. Mu-Han studies how diel thermal variability (DTV) influences energy allocation in the Caribbean coral Siderastrea […]
So Young Bae Receives Invitation and Award to Speak at the American Crystallographic Association in Chicago
MCBB PhD student So Young Bae of the Tolan Lab received a Travel Award to present her research at the 2025 American Crystallographic Association (ACA) Annual Meeting. Her work was selected for both a 30-minute oral presentation and a poster presentation, and marked a notable achievement in the field of structural biology of ketohexokinase. […]