Recent Student Awards & Publications
Jonathan Craft received a Link Foundation/Smithsonian Institute Graduate Fellowship and a Lerner-Gray Grant for Marine Science.
Daniel Fernandes was awarded the 2010 Grants in Aid of Research Program (GIAR) through the Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology (SICB).
David Shiffman's blog post placed second in an internet-wide science writing competition, which resulted in an interview on NPR's 'The Pat Morrison Show'. He was also nominated for a College of Charleston ExCEL award in the Outstanding Graduate Student category. David also won the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 2010 Graduate Student Research Colloquium at the College of Charleston.
Samantha Smoot was awarded the Patricia Dudley Fellowship at UW-Friday Harbor Laboratories.
Mark Stratton received financial awards from both the Slocum-Lunz Foundation and the Lerner Gray Fund of the American Museum of Natural History to perform some experimental work titled "Nitrogen isotopic composition of amino acids in red drum (Scianops ocellatus)."
Ashley Duquette, Samantha Smoot, Kristin Stover and Nora Sturgeon were awarded Presidential Summer Research Awards from the College of Charleston .
Walter Blair, Whitney Hook, Jennifer Newby and Jason Smith received Marine Genomics Fellowships.
Elizabeth Broyles received a McLeod-Frampton Scholarship from the South Carolina Agricultural Society.
David Shiffman and Jena Wirth were awarded Joanna Deep Water Fellowships.
David Shiffman and Mark Stratton were nominated and elected to Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society (April 2010).
Whitney Hook, Nat Johnson, Ryan Joyce, Kristin Stover, and Chuck Tucker were awarded Graduate School Research and Presentation Grants.