2006-2007
FACULTY
Elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science:
Wilfred Chen, professor of chemical and environmental engineering. Citation: For distinguished contributions in environmental biotechnology and biosensing, particularly in the areas of bioremediation and detection of pesticides, heavy metals and infectious pathogens.
Marc Deshusses, professor and chair in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Citation: For contributions to environmental biotechnology, particularly for the development of biofilters, biotrickling filters, air pollution controls and bioreactors for the treatment of emerging groundwater contaminants.
Marylynn V. Yates, Chair in the Department of Environmental Sciences and professor of environmental microbiology. Citation: For significant contributions to our understanding of virus detection and behavior in the natural environment and for expert advice on national water quality studies.
From the Entomological Society of America:
Michael E. Adams, a professor of entomology and neuroscience, won the Recognition Award in Insect Physiology, Biochemistry, & Toxicology.
STUDENTS
Cary Coburn, The Cell Biology & Neuroscience Outstanding Teaching Assistant for the 2006-2007 academic year.
Wendy Hwang-Verslues, UCTOXIC and Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research award.
T. Roy Fukuto Outstanding Student Presentation at the 2006 Environmental Toxicology Student Symposium.
Cancer research in the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan as a post-doctoral fellow, September 2007.
Mae Grace Nillos, 2nd-year UC Toxic Substances Fellowship, in the amount of $25,000, for her project on "Investigating Enantioselectivity in Pyrethroid Metabolism."
Best Poster Presentation award at the Annual Southern California-SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) meeting in Lake Arrowhead, April 9-10, 2007.
Noriko Nishino, UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Lead Campus Program Fellowship.
Kristine Richardson
2006 Outstanding First Year Student Presentation
2006 SETAC North America Student Travel Award
2006-2007 Albert Marsh Environmental Sciences Scholarship
2006-2007 Environmental Sciences Outstanding Teaching Assistant
Kelly Thrippleton, Graduate Dean's Dissertation Research Grant.
2005-2006
FACULTY
Roger Atkinson - Gave the Fifty-Fourth Academic Senate Annual Faculty Research Lecture “Exploring Alkane Atmospheric Chemistry” on June 5, 2006.
Robert Krieger - Society of Toxicology, Public Communications Award, 2005.
American Chemical Society, International Award for Research in Agrochemicals, 2005.
University of California, Riverside, Non-Senate Distinguished Researcher Award, 2005.
Entomological Society of America Pacific Branch Distinguished Achievement Award in Extension, 2006.
STUDENTS
Homero Camacho - UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Lead Campus Program Fellowship.
Swati Chawla - UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program Student Fellowship, 2006-2008.
Cary Coburn - UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Lead Campus Program Fellowship. Selected for an internship at the Neurotoxicology Division of the US EPA.
Lynnie Cua - CNAS Herbert Kraft Scholarship.
Chunang Gu - UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Lead Campus Program Fellowship.
Haizheng Hong - UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program Student Fellowship, 2006- 2008.
Wendy Hwang-Verslues - UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Lead Campus Program Fellowship. Poster Presentation at UC Toxic Substance TSR&TP Annual Symposium, San Diego, April 28-29, 2006. Received Best Poster Award - Honorable Mention.
Wanyoike Kang’ethe - UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Lead Campus Program Fellowship.
James Keenan - 2006 Carl Strom Western Exterminator Company Scholarship in Urban Entomology.
Mary Ann Rempel - Best Student Presentation at the Regional So Cal SETAC annual meeting, May 2006, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.
Wesley Hunter - Best Student Poster Award, So Cal SETAC Annual Meeting, May 2006, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.
Lin Wang - Graduate Student Travel Award to attend the 25th International Symposium on Dioxin and the 20th ISPAC Symposium.
2004-2005
FACULTY
Roger Atkinson - Academic Senate Faculty Research Lecturer for 2005-2006; Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2005).
Nancy Beckage - Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Mentor, Excellence in Undergraduate Research Training.
Robert Krieger - American Chemical Society International Award for Research in Agrochemicals (2005); Society of Toxicology Public Communication Award (2005).
Marylynn Yates - National Associate of the National Academies and the Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
STUDENTS
Homero Camacho - Pre-doctoral award from the UCLA/UCR/LANL Lead Campus Program, UC Toxic Substances Research & Teaching Program.
Cary Coburn - Pre-doctoral award from the UCLA/UCR/LANL Lead Campus Program, UC Toxic Substances Research & Teaching Program.
Two-month internship at EPA, Neurotoxicology Division, 2006.
Wesley Hunter - Best Student Poster award at the Southern California SETAC Annual Meeting (2005).
Kai Sun - Pre-doctoral award from the UCLA/UCR/LANL Lead Campus Program, UC Toxic Substances Research & Teaching Program.
Lin Wang - Pre-doctoral award from the UCLA/UCR/LANL Lead Campus Program, UC Toxic Substances Research & Teaching Program.
2003-2004
FACULTY
Roger Atkinson - California Air Resources Board's Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award for outstanding contributions to Air Pollution Science.
Nancy Beckage - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
David Eastmond - Jefferson Science Fellow.
Sarjeet Gill - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Ashok Mulchandani - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Daniel Schlenk - Elected to the Board of Directors for the North American Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
Recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information as among the "most highly cited researchers in the world for making fundamental contributions to the advancements of science and technology in the recent decade" were:
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Janet Arey
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Roger Atkinson
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William Jury
STUDENTS
Catherine Gibbons
1) Travel Award from the Radiation Research Society to attend International Congress for Radiation Research in Brisbane, Australia, in August 2003.
2) Travel Award from the Radiation Research Society to attend this year's annual meeting of the Radiation Research Society, in St. Louis, Missouri.
3) Research fellow at the lab of Dr. Munira Kadhim in the Radiation and Genome Stability Unit at the Medical Research Council in Oxfordshire, England.
Scott Mondrala - Predoctoral Award from the UCLA/UCR/LANL lead campus program of UCTSRTP.
Efrem Neuwirth - 1) Travel Award from from the ICRR to attend International Congress for Radiation Research in Brisbane, Australia, in August 2003.
Andrew Olaharski
1) Awarded "Best Student Poster" at Environmental Mutagen Society annual meeting held in Miami, 2003.
2) Named "Outstanding Teaching Assistant 2003-2004", Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience.
3) Awarded Dissertation Grant from UC MEXUS.
4) Personal achievement: In the process of being promoted to Shodan (first degree black belt) in Kodokan Judo.
Karen Riveles- Predoctoral fellowship from TRDRP.
Cindy Wu - Predoctoral award from the UCLA/UCR/LANL lead campus program of UCTSRTP.
Lin Wang - Predoctoral award from the UCLA/UCR/LANL lead campus program of UCTSRTP
