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2005 Awards

PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

Full Award ($1,000) name, department, university, mentor, project title, expected Ph.D. completion year
Jaime Barnes, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Zachary Sharp and Jane Selverstone, "Tectonic and metamorphic implications of high Cl contents in sepentinites," 2006-Gail Naughton award
Anne Hiniker, Cellular and Molecular Biology,University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, James Bardwell, "Elucidation of the in vivo role of the E. coli disulfide isomerase DsbC," 2006-Diane Russell award
Wendee Holtcamp, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, Joan Strassmann, "Uncovering the causes and consequences of animal hybridization," 2007-Ruth Satter award
Amanda Mifflin, Chemistry, Northwestern University, Franz Geiger, "Surface-specific studies of physical and chemical processes involving metal contaminants in soils using nonlinear laser spectroscopy techniques," 2006-Amy Lutz award
Rachael Neal, Sociology, University of Arizona, Joseph Galaskiewicz, "Influencing and implementing: The involvement of civil society organizations in USAID's Democracy and Governance programming," 2007
Angela Smilanich, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, Lee Dyer, "How diet negatively affects herbivores while benefiting natural enemies," 2007
Dana Whitelaw, Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Michelle Sauther, "Behavioral ecology of ring-tailed lemurs in a fragmented habitat of southwestern Madagascar," 2007
Yutang Wang, Physics, Princeton University, N.P. Ong, "Single molecule dynamics of lambda C1 repressor binding to DNA"-Luise Meyer Schutzmeister award

Citation of Merit ($300)
Lynn Abramson, Marine Sciences Research Center, SUNY Stony Brook, Cindy Lee amd Robert Aller, "Mechanisms of mineral protection of organic matter in the water column," 2006
Almaris Alonso-Rosario, Microbiology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Susan Leschine, "Biofilm formation by the thermophile cellulytic actinomycete Thermobifida fusca," 2007
M. Cristina Lopez-Gallego, Biology, University of New Orleans, Pamela O'Neil, Adaptive divergence following drastic environmental changes in populations of a long-lived cycad," 2006