Full Award ($1,000) name, department, university, mentor, project title, expected Ph.D. completion year
Christine A. Aidala, Physics, Columbia University, Brian Cole, "A measurement of A_N and A_LL through neutral and charged pions," 2005.-Luise Meyer Schutzmeister Award

Sarah Barr Barber, Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Payson Sheets, "The development and organization of an early state: terminal formative elites in coastal Oaxaca," 2005

Carissa Lynn Bellardine, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Kenneth Lutchen, "A dynamic systems approach to relating the heterogeneity of alveolar collapse and overdistension to functional heterogeneity during acute respiratory distress syndrome," 2005-Gail Naughton Award

Darby G. Brown, Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Caitlyn Allen, "Understanding plant disease from the inside out," 2004-Amy Lutz Award

Kiersten Amie Henderson, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, Scott Keeney, "Mechanisms leading to synaptonemal complex assembly and disassembly," 2005

Silvia Beatriz Lomascolo, Zoology, University of Florida, Douglas Levey, "Does seed dispersal matter? An evolutionary examination of figs and their dispersers," 2006

Heather A. Passmore, Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, William J. Platt, "Interacting effects of fires and hurricanes in longleaf pine savannas," 2005

Julie Spencer-Rodgers, Psychology, University of California-Berkeley, Kaiping Peng, "Minority identity development: the cognitive mediators of coping with minority status," 2004

Heather Patrice Tarleton, Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Ihor R. Lemischka, "Functional significance of differential expression in stem cells," 2006-Diane Hadock Russell Award

Magdalena Vanya, Sociology, University of California-Davis, Carole Joffe, "Building democracy through beating domestic violence: the case of postcommunist Hungary and Slovakia," 2005

Citation of Merit ($300)
Sarah Ann Compton, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, Shawn Holt, "Defining the role of chaperones in telomerase activity and telomere stability," 2004

Brigitte Kovacevich, Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Arthur A. Demarest, "Reconstructing classic Maya economic systems: production and exchange at Cancuen," 2005

Johanna Marie Kraus, Biology, University of Virginia, Henry Wilbur, "Role of resource subsidies in structuring communities at a pond-forest boundary," 2005

Juliana Leung, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, Stephen P. Goff, "Characterization of a novel interaction between a cytoskeletal regulator IQGAPI and Moloney murine leukemia virus Matrix protein during virus replication," 2005

Keiko Yamakoshi Petroksy, Graduate Group in Biophysics, University of California-San Francisco, Wendell Lim, "Structural studies of the L27 domain: a heterodimerization domain crucial for synaptic scaffold assembly," 2005

Sarah Tschampel Wittkopp, Chemistry, University of Georgia, Robert J. Woods, "Development of a lone-pair inclusive force field for biomolecules and its application to glycopeptides," 2005

Michele Ann Wozniak, Pharmacology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Patricia J. Keely, "Regulation of breast cell differentiation by collagen rigidity," 2005

last year's awardees