2012 SURF Recipients Announced

SURF enables undergraduate students to conduct 10 consecutive weeks of mentored plant biology research during the early part of their college careers.  The 2012 awardees are:

 AWARD RECIPIENTS

CATEGORY A: Major Research Universities

Tara Alpert Washington University in St. Louis

Robert Bayne University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (mentor at University of Glasgow)

Hannah De Jong Cornell University (mentor at Boyce Thompson Institute)

Xinxin Ding Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Colleen Hartel Purdue University

Stephanie Klein University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Christina Lee University of Michigan

Alexander Reynolds Louisiana State University

Alex Shaw University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

CATEGORY B: Primarily Undergraduate Institutions

Keri Caudle Fort Hays State University

Jon Cody Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Colleen Friel Allegheny College

Seanna Hewett Pacific Lutheran University

Iftekhar Showpnil Ohio Wesleyan University

Kristen Versluys The King's University College

HONORABLE MENTIONS

CATEGORY A

Hillary Cirka Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Lily Gage Carleton College (mentor at Washington University in St. Louis)

Leslie Holland New Mexico State University (mentor at Oregon State University)

Praphapan Lasin Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Rachel McCabe University of Maryland (mentor at USDA-ARS Beltsville)

Crystal Owens Duke University

CATEGORY B

Molly Gorder University of Minnesota Duluth

Spencer Gordon University of Puget Sound

Nurlybek Mursaliyev James Madison University

Kelsie Musil University of Nebraska at Kearney

Cameron Venable Lebanon Valley College