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MCDB Senior Awards

The 2009 Graduating Seniors and Student Awards

The Robert L. Sinsheimer Award in Molecular Biology

This award was initiated in 1997 through the generosity of Professor Robert Sinsheimer, a distinguished Biochemist and Molecular Biologist and former University of California Chancellor, to recognize the graduating seniors in the department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology with the highest academic performances in the core courses of the specialized Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology majors.

  • Danielle Mari Panelli

The Jean Devlin Memorial Award in Pharmacology

Awarded to the graduating senior in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology with the highest overall academic performance in the core courses of the Pharmacology Major. This award was initiated in memory of Jean Devlin, a Pharmacologist who was instrumental in the development of the Pharmacology Major at UCSB, the first such major in the nation.

  • Sean Patrick Carroll Robinson
  • Vanessa Lovelle Benoit

MCDB Distinction in the Major

For outstanding undergraduate research. Individual departments and programs in the College of Letters and Science grant this academic award to students of departmental honors programs who complete a senior honors project or thesis with distinction.

  • Alyssa Mary Capuano
  • Sarah Ying Jun Chan
  • Heather Renee Clingan
  • Mia Soraya Di Julio
  • Thomas Alan Dutra
  • Michael Gideon Frantz
  • Elizabeth Nason Hitchner
  • Tai Li Lee
  • Gary Lee Mantalas
  • Lauren Mackenzie Mavor
  • Portia Morris
  • Elizabeth Larkin Nelson
  • Ryan Earl O'Leary
  • Danielle Mari Panelli
  • Erin Marie Schuyler
  • Ella Bath-Sheva Severson
  • Sasha Shekhar
  • Justine Alyse Swann
  • Ivan Vujkovic-Cvijin
  • Amanda Wahnich

The Stipanich Undergraduate Research Scholar Award

This award was initiated in 2002 through the generosity of the Stipanich Family, whose son graduated as a Biology Major at UCSB. It is awarded to MCDB undergraduate students who carry out summer research with a MCDB Faculty member.

  • Alyssa Mary Capuano

Outstanding Senior Biology Peer Advisor (Interdepartmental Award)

For excellence in peer advising undergraduate biology major students

  • Nadia Moghim

Mortar Board Award

This award goes to the graduating senior(s) who has the highest total UCSB cumulative gpa in the graduating class.

  • Ryan Earl O'Leary

Colville and Dearborn Award

The Francis Colville and Terry Dearborn Memorial Award is for outstanding academic achievement as an honors student majoring in the sciences.

  • Danielle Mari Panelli
Undergraduate Program in Biology - University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9611