The School of Graduate Studies proudly recognizing the notable achievements of graduate students, faculty, and staff at the annual Merit and Achievement Awards Ceremony. These awards recognize important accomplishments in research and scholarship, teaching and mentoring, leadership, outreach, and service across all disciplines, through Chancellor-level affiliations, and within specific disciplinary clusters.

Our first in-person event in two years was a huge success.  Congratulations to the 2022 Molecular Biosciences Graduate Student Organization Symposium Award Winners.  

Oral Presentation Winners:

1. Daniel Jung
2. Nuo Jia
3. Irving Estevez

Poster Winners:

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Zakiyah Henry and Rulaiha Taylor were selected for the Scientist Mentoring and Diversity Program (SMDP).

Congratulations to the three Aaron Shatkin Award winners from 2022. The award recognizes outstanding graduate students who have excelled in their research and coursework:

Jay Shah from Dr. Prabhas Moghe’s lab

Agata Krzyżanowska from Dr. Derek Sant’Angelo’s lab

Congratulations to Rukia Henry on receiving the New Jersey Commission on Cancer research award. Rukia's project is entitled:  "Elucidating the Role of LYN Src Kinase in DNA repair".

Congratulations to Stephania Guzman who was selected as a Scholar for the 2021 Scientist Mentoring & Diversity Program for Biotechnology

On Thursday, May 13^th the School of Graduate Studies celebrated the 2021 Merit and Achievement Award winners.

Congratulations to the 2020-2021 scholarship recipients of the Aaron Shatkin Graduate Student Award.

The Shatkin Awards are given annually to Ph.D. students in the biomedical sciences for excellent academic and research achievement. The scholarship is named after Aaron Shatkin, who was the founding director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine. Congratulations to this year's awardees:

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