Franklin Leach

Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2012 Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2012 Franklin Leach, a recent doctoral graduate in chemistry, developed and refined new mass spectrometry methods for the structural characterization of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) carbohydrates, a particularly difficult target for such analysis. These biomolecule chains exist on the surfaces of...

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Junwen Chen

Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2012 Junwen Chen, a recent doctoral graduate in management information systems, investigates the role of mobile devices in blurring the temporal and geographic boundaries between work and personal life domains. Her work examines the ways in which mobile technology is both beneficial...

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Haibao Tang

Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2011 Haibao Tang, senior bioinformatics engineer, J. Craig Venter Institute, devised a novel ‘top-down’ computational method to clarify the evolution of angiosperms (flowering plants). His work set the stage for dramatic improvements in the precision of translational genomics, since his method can...

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Yuchen Liu

Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2011 Yuchen Liu, postdoctoral candidate, Yale University, has made major contributions to scientists’ understanding of methanogenic Archaea. She investigated a regulatory histone-like protein in the methanogenic archaeon, Methanococcus maripaludis, which required her to develop new methods and modify others specifically for the...

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Darren Grem

Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2011 Darren Grem, postdoctoral research associate, Yale University, investigated the complex dialogue between conservative Christianity and business in the Sunbelt after World War II. Rather than accepting the old trope that conservative Christianity arose out of a grassroots backlash against the political...

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Kaushlendra Singh

Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2010 Kaushlendra Singh, an assistant professor of wood science and technology at West Virginia University, developed novel technology for fractionating poultry litter to re-use in beneficial ways. Through fractionation, pyrolysis, and pelletization, Singh produced several value-added products from poultry litter. The smaller...

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Brant Faircloth

Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2010 Brant Faircloth, a post-doctoral scholar in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California in Los Angeles, used molecular techniques to demonstrate a flexible mating system and social integration in Bobwhite quail. Contrary to the accepted dogma that the ground-nesting...

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Dennis Reidy

Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2009 Dennis Reidy, a psychologist now working as an assistant professor at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, conducted research in one of the most difficult areas to study in a scientifically controlled setting—the relationship between aggression and sexuality in modern...

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Noha Mesbah

Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2009 Noha Mesbah, a microbiologist who will soon be on faculty at Suez Canal University in Egypt, studies how some living micoorganisms survive, even thrive, in extreme environments—in particular, those that exhibit concomitantly high-temperature, high-salt, and high-pH. She has developed innovative approaches...

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