2020 Award Winners

Samarth Mathur, a graduate student in the Computational Life Sciences program, was awarded the Most Outstanding Interdisciplinary Project Award for his project, and gave a keynote address entitled: “Using evolutionary genomics for wildlife conservation: The case for the Montezuma Quail​."

Due to COVID-19 restrictions we were unable to hold our 2020 Spring Reception event in person.  Instead, we held a live Zoom presentation to recognize our award winners and host our keynote address.

View a recording of Samarth's keynote address on our Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars Youtube page.

2020 Honorable Mention

Robert Bergia, a graduate student in the Gerontology program, was awarded an Honorable Mention for his project entitled: “Cardiometabolic Health-Promoting Effects of Low- and High-Glycemic Mediterranean-Style Eating Patterns: The MedGI-Carb Randomized Controlled Trial​."

2020 Honorable Mention

Sayan Dutta, a graduate student in the Life Sciences (PULSe) program, was awarded an Honorable Mention for his project entitled: “Inhibition of alpha-synuclein aggregation and prion-like propagation as intervention strategies to slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease​."