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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>Lauren Bush</b> - <font color="#000000">Salvador E. Luria Prize - For scholarship and research of publication quality in Prof. Matt Vander Heiden’s lab.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Will Conway</b> - </font><font color="#000000">Merck Prize - For outstanding research and academic performance in biophysical or bioinformatics science in Prof. Ibrahim Cisse's lab.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Maiko Kitaoka</b> - </font>Whitehead Prize - For outstanding promise for a career in biological research through academic scholarship as well as contributions to research and the MIT community, for work in Prof. Terry Orr-Weaver’s
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<div><b>Chelsea (Xiao) Chen </b>- John L. Asinari Award - For outstanding research in the field of life sciences for work in Prof. Hazel Sive’s lab.</div>
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<div><b>Jenny Halford</b> - Ned Holt Prize - For demonstrated excellence in scholarship as well as service to the MIT community, and research in Prof. Monty Krieger's lab.</div>
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<div><b>Rachel Terry</b> - 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. Rachel worked in Prof.
Angelika Amon’s lab.</div>
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<div><b>Kimia Ziadkhanpour</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><font color="#000000"><b>Undergraduate Research Symposium Speakers </b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">These students were nominated by faculty and selected to speak at the Undergraduate Symposium in January 2016</font></div>
<div><b>Erika Arias, Anastassia Bobokalonova, Chelsea (Xiao) Chen, Ching Pin Chen, Will Conway, Sean Corcoran, Lei Ding, Alina Li, </b><b>Sarah Osmulski, Rachel Terry, Shi Yun Wang</b></div>
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<div><b>Biology Phi Beta Kappa inductees</b></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>Emma Chaloux-Pinette, I-Ling Chiang, Will Conway, Chloe Dlott, Hope Flaxman, Jenny Halford, Patrick Juras, Sharon Kim, Marsha Wibowo, Amy Zhang</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Lei Ding -- received a Goldwater Scholarship </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>Emma Chaloux-Pinette, </b><b>Jessie Chi, </b><b>Celeste Dang, </b><b>Jenny Halford, </b><b>Maya Jay,</b><b> Elizabeth Li, Krystal
Lai, Meenakshi Chakraborty, Rui Song, Zulikayida Maimaiti</b></div>
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
<div>Janice</div>
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