Sixteen undergraduate students have earned 2023 summer research awards from the Department of Biochemistry. A list of this year’s Mary Shine Peterson Award and Undergraduate Summer Research Award recipients and their faculty mentors can be found below. Congratulations to all of this year’s awardees!
Mary Shine Peterson Award
This prestigious undergraduate award is designed to recognize UW-Madison Biochemistry undergraduate students with demonstrated excellence in and commitment to research by providing up to $5,000 to support biochemistry-relevant activities during the summer session before their senior year and/or during their senior year. Activities for support from this award include conducting faculty-advised research on campus or overseas, traveling overseas to participate in a global health program, and/or traveling to a scientific meeting to present a research-oriented poster or paper.
- Megan Berg (Chad Rienstra)
- Dev Desai (David Hershey)
- Jihyun Hwang (Ophelia Venturelli)
- Brad Li (Ying Ge)
- Martin Olson (Chad Rienstra)
- Lars Schimmelpfennig (Samuel Gellman)
- Victoria Tholkes (Ci-Ji Lim)
Summer Research Award
This award provides $4,000 in support to aid biochemistry undergraduates in gaining focused, full-time research experience early in their academic careers. Award recipients work in a lab at UW–Madison full-time during the summer and submit a research report of approximately 500 to 1,000 words at the end of the summer term.
- Emma Cushman (Alessandro Senes)
- Joshua DeRuyter (Carol Eunmi Lee)
- David Givand (Krishanu Saha)
- Sophie Grunder (Catherine Fox)
- Allison Harris (Darcie Moore)
- Peter Hoferle (Robert Kirchdoerfer)
- Jacob Kunkel (Hiroshi Maeda)
- Niharika Patankar (Jenny Gumperz)
- Hailey Rude (M. Thomas Record)
Nineteen graduate students have been awarded summer research fellowships to continue their exemplary research with the Department of Biochemistry. The names of the students, their advisors, and their awards can be found below.
- Thomas Anderson (Robert Kirchdoerfer, William H. Peterson Fellowships in Biochemistry)
- Roma Broadberry (Timothy Grant, Willian R. and Dorothy E. Sullivan Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship)
- Merissa Brousseau (Katherine Henzler-Wildman, William H. Peterson Fellowships in Biochemistry)
- Chih-Chia (Eden) Chang (Scott Coyle, Dr. James Chieh-Hsia Mao Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship)
- Kyle Flickinger (Jason Cantor, Stephen Babcock Agricultural Chemistry Research Fellows)
- Clara Frazier (Amy Weeks, William H. Peterson Fellowships in Biochemistry)
- Benjamin Harding (Chad Rienstra, William H. Peterson Fellowships in Biochemistry)
- Qixiang He (Ci-Ji Lim, William H. Peterson Fellowships in Biochemistry)
- Kimberly Huggler (Jason Cantor, Stephen Babcock Agricultural Chemistry Research Fellows)
- Andrea Hunger (Jason Cantor, Stephen Babcock Agricultural Chemistry Research Fellows)
- Isabella James (Judith Simcox, Stephen Babcock Agricultural Chemistry Research Fellows)
- Karli Lipinski (Aaron Hoskins, William H. Peterson Fellowships in Biochemistry)
- Expery Omollo (Robert Landick, William H. Peterson Fellowships in Biochemistry)
- Riley Peterson (Samuel Butcher, Arthur B. Michael Fund)
- Rohith Rajesekaran (Scott Coyle, Paul H. Phillips Biochemistry Scholarship)
- Saeed Roschdi (Samuel Butcher, Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship)
- Juan Sanchez (Elizabeth Wright, Steenbock Predoctoral Fellowship in Biochemistry)
- Sarah Schmidt-Dannert (Srivatsan Raman, William H. Peterson Fellowships in Biochemistry)
- Anna Zmich (Andrew Buller, Arnold E. and Catherine M. Denton Biochemistry Fellowship)