<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><b><font size="4">To the Biology Community:</font></b></div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div><b>Regina Cho:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b><font><u>Gene Brown Prize</u> - For outstanding academic scholarship, and demonstrated excellence as a teaching assistant</font> in 7.02.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Michael Hwang:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></b><u>Gene Brown Prize</u> - For outstanding academic scholarship, and demonstrated excellence as a teaching assistant in 7.02.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Anne Huang:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b><u>Susan Hockfield Prize in Life Sciences</u> - For a third-year MIT undergraduate student in any area of the life sciences who has <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>demonstrated both exceptional performance and promise for graduate study and research.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Billy Huang:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b><font><u>John L. Asinary Award</u> - for outstanding research in the field of life sciences for work in 7.13.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><b>Raymond Nguyen:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></b><font><u>John L. Asinary Award</u> - for outstanding research in the field of life sciences for work in 7.13.</font></font></div><div><br></div><div><b>Jennifer Kao:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b><font><u>John L. Asinary Award</u> - for outstanding research in the field of life sciences for work in 7.16.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><b>Natanya Kerper:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b></font><u>Whitehead Prize</u> - For outstanding promise for a career in biological research through academic scholarship as well as contributions <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>to research and the MIT community.</div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><font><b>Catherine Koch:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b><font><u>Ned Holt Prize</u> - For demonstrated excellence in scholarship as well as service to the MIT community.</font></font></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><b><b>Victoria Lu:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font><u>Ned Holt Prize</u> - For demonstrated excellence in scholarship as well as service to the MIT community.</font></span></b></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><font><b>Laura Lu:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b></font><font><u>Salvador E. Luria Prize</u> - For scholarship and research of publication quality</font>.</font></div><div><br></div><div><b>Katherine Luo:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b><u>Merck Prize</u> - For outstanding research and academic performance in biophysical or bioinformatics sciences.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><b>2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium Speakers:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b></font></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Elliot Akama-Garren</font></div><div></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Jacob Austin-Breneman</font></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Eric Boyer</font></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Natanya Kerper</font></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Catherine Koch</font></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tatiana Mamaliga</font></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tuyen Phung</font></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Erica Pino</font></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Jaime Reyes</font></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Matthew Skalak</font></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Meme Tran</font></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Max Wu</font></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Angela Zhang</font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><font>Biology students nominated for <b>Phi Beta Kappa</b> 2013:</font></font></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hyunjii Cho</div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Nikita Consul</font></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Charles Hsu</font></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Katherine Luo</font></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tiffany Peng</font></div><div><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tiantian Zhou</font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">The following students were acknowledged and thanked for their work with the <b>Biology Undergraduate Student Association</b>: </font> </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Jonathan Gootenberg</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>David Han</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Victoria Lu<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Geronimo Mirano</div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Olivia Papa</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Prakriti Paul</div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Divya Pillai</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sarine Shahmirian<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Jenny Zhang</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Joyce Roberge</div></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div>Undergraduate Program<br>Biology Education Office 68-120<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>31 Ames Street<br>Cambridge, MA 02139<br>617-253-4718<br>fax: 617-258-9329<br>email: <a href="mailto:roberge@mit.edu">roberge@mit.edu</a></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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