Distinguished Student Commencement Speaker Award
Kenolisa Onwueme
Alumni Award of Distinction
Dr. Ellen Heller Goldberg, '71
Julian Rachele Prizes
Named for a former dean of the Graduate School, the Rachele Prize is the highest student award presented by the school. It is awarded to students who have published significant research in a scientific journal.
Li Ma, "Phosphorylation and Functional Inactivation of TSC2 by Erk: Implications for Tuberous Sclerosis and Cancer Pathogenesis." Cell, 121: 1-15 (2005). (Professor Pier Paolo Pandolfi)
Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, "How an RNA Ligase Discriminates RNA Versus DNA Damage." Molecular Cell, 16: 211-221 (2004). (Professors Stewart Shuman and Christopher Lima)
Vincent du Vigneaud PrizesErin Bank, "Selective Inhibition of Bicarbonate-Sensitive Adenylyl Cyclases Is Lethal to the Malarial Parasite, Plasmodium Falciparum." (Professor Lonny Levin)
Gaorav Gupta, "Genes that Mark and Mediate Breast Cancer Metastasis to Lung." (Professor Joan Massagué)
Kiersten Henderson, "Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Promotes Meiotic Recombination Directly Through Phosphorylation of MER2." (Professor Scott Keeney)
Barry Kappel, "Soluble, Recombinant MHC Molecules Can Remodel Specific Immunity: Demonstration in a Murine Model of GVHD." (Professor David Scheinberg)
Peter Rahl, "Elp1p, the Yeast Homolog of the Familial Dysautonomia Disease Syndrome Protein, Negatively Regulates Exocytosis Independently of Transcriptional Elongation." (Professor Ruth Collins, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
Jing Tian, "Variant Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: Identification of a-Ketoglutarate Decarboxylase." (Professor Carl Nathan)
Ming-Ching Wong, "Twist Activity Is Regulated by Its Structure, Dimer Partner, and Tissue Context in Drosophila Somatic Myogenesis." (Professor Mary Baylies)
Dr. Ellen Heller Goldberg, '71, receives the 2005 Distinguished Alumnus Award at the Convocation ceremony for the Graduate School.
Kristin Burns, "Reconstitution and Biochemical Characterization of a New Pyridoxal-5-Phosphate Biosynthetic Pathway." (Professor Tadhg Begley, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
Jeanne Farrell, "Identification and Characterization of Somatic Soluble Adenylyl Cyclase Alternatively Spliced Transcripts." (Professor Lonny Levin)
Zhonghua Gao, "Caspase-2-Initiated Apoptotic Cell Death Is Mediated by Bid-Induced Cytochrome C Release from Mitochondria." (Professor Xuejun Jiang)
Earl Gordon, "1,4-Diazabicyclo[2.2.2]Octane Derivatives: A Novel Class of Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel Blockers." (Professor Geoffrey Abbott)
Ensar Halilovic, "In Human Tumors Mutations in B-Raf Drive Cyclin-D Transcription and Transformation, and Confer Sensitivity to MEK Inhibitors." (Professor Neal Rosen)
Asma Hatoum, "Proximal RNA Polymerase Pause in E. Coli." (Professor Jeffrey Roberts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
Meera Mani, "Defective Endocytosis of Synaptic Vesicles in Neurons of Mice Lacking Synaptojanin 1." (Professor Timothy Ryan)
Sumit Niogi, "Assessing the Developmental Relationship Between Reading Disability and White Matter Tract Microstructure Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging (Dti); The Importance of a Reproducible Objective Quantification Scheme." (Professor Bruce McCandliss)
Michael Seidman, "A Genetic Locus Associated with PECAM-Independent Inflammation." (Professor William Muller)
Smita Shankar, "Mechanism of Antitermination by Phage Q Protein at Rho-Dependent Termination Sites." (Professor Jeffrey Roberts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
Karen Wu, "Semaphorin 3a-Induced Growth Cone Collapse Mediated by Local Translation of Rho A." (Professor Samie Jaffrey)
Li Ma (center) is the recipient of the highly prestigious Julian Rachele Prize, the highest student award presented by the Graduate School.
Vincent du Vigneaud First-Year Awards
Ting Jia, "Rapid MCP-1 Release by Infected Macrophage Is Regulated by NF-Kb Signaling Through Transcription-Based Mechanism." (Professor Eric Pamer)
Asif Maroof, "Semaphorin 3a Plays a Modulatory Role in the Survival and Neurite Outgrowth of Specific Neuronal Progenitors Derived from Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells." (Professor Lorenz Studer)
Polloneal Ocbina, "Lhx6 Directs Interneuron Fate and Migration at Distinct Stages of Development." (Professor Stewart Anderson)
Photos by Amelia Panico.