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<div>To the Biology Community -</div>
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<div>The department is pleased to announce that the following students
received Biology awards and recognition at last night's Undergraduate
Dinner. Congratulations to all!</div>
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<div><b>Ryan Alexander - </b><font color="#000000"> Ned Holt
Prize - For demonstrated excellence in scholarship as well as service
to the MIT community.</font></div>
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<div><b>Allison Alwan</b> -<font color="#000000"> John L. Asinary
Award - for outstanding research in the field of life sciences for
work in a UROP and 7.18.</font></div>
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<div><b>Alvin Jeon</b><font color="#000000">- Gene Brown Prize - For
outstanding academic scholarship, and demonstrated excellence as
a teaching assistant</font> in 7.02.</div>
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<div><b>Evgeny Kiner</b><font color="#000000">- Ned Holt Prize - For
demonstrated excellence in scholarship as well as service to the MIT
community.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Kamena Kostova</b></font>-<font
color="#000000"> Salvador E. Luria Prize - For scholarship and
research of publication quality</font>.</div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Kateryna Kozyrytska</b></font> -<font
color="#000000"> Merck Prize - For outstanding research and academic
performance in biophysical or bioinformatics sciences</font>.</div>
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<div><b>Christine Lai</b>-<font color="#000000"> Susan Hockfield Prize
in Life Sciences - For a third-year MIT undergraduate student in any
area of the life sciences who has demonstrated both exceptional
performance and promise for graduate study and research.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Victoria Lu</b></font> -<font
color="#000000"> Whitehead Prize - For outstanding promise for a
career in biological research through academic scholarship as well as
contributions to research and the MIT community.</font></div>
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<div><b>Kate Phillips</b> -<font color="#000000"> John L.
Asinary Award - for outstanding research in the field of life sciences
for work in project lab 7.13.</font></div>
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<div><b>Stephanie Senna</b> -<font color="#000000"> John L.
Asinary Award - for outstanding research in the field of life sciences
for work in project lab 7.13.</font></div>
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<div><b>Stephanie Lin</b> - recipient of Rhodes Scholarship.</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Undergraduate Research Symposium Speakers
2012 - These students were nominated by faculty and selected to
speak at the Undergraduate Symposium in January 2012.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>Samuel Acquah, Ryan Alexander, Allison
Alwan, Hamsika Chandrasekar, Frances Chen, Paul Jaffe, Melissa Ko,
Kateryna Kozyrytska, Kenneth Lin, Victoria Lu, Akansh Murthy, Mariya
Samoylova, Sabine Schneider, Lauren Sless, Sabina Sood, Christina
Welsh</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Biology students nominated for Phi Beta
Kappa 2012</font> -</div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>Jessica Agatstein, Stephanie
Chen,Tiffany Chen, Avital Fischer, Allison Hamilos, Yunxin Jiao, Jun
Kim, Evgeny Kiner, Kamena Kostova, Stephanie Lin, Ambar Mehta, Kate
Phillips, Zoe Rogers, Stephanie Senna, Sumi Sinha, Anupong
Tangpeerachaikul, Sasha Targ, Grace Taylor, Anjali Thakar, Christina
Welsh</b></font></div>
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<div>The following students were acknowledged and thanked for their
work with the Biology Undergraduate Student Association: <b>
Evgeny Kiner, David Han, Sarine Shahmarian, Jonathan Gootenberg,
Victoria Lu, Diana Wang, Olivia Papa, Divya Pillai.</b></div>
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