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2012

February 2012

Sharon Kardia, UM SPH Professor of Epidemiology, has joined the Dean's Office in the role of Senior Associate Dean for Administration. She will be working with faculty, staff, and students to develop administrative processes to aid in identifying and rewarding creativity and innovation. Said UM SPH Dean Martin Philbert: "The University of Michigan is well known for encouraging research. As we increase our focus on innovation, Sharon will help us make this a rewarding and relatively seamless process."

2011

Sally Camper, James V. Neel Collegiate Professor of Human Genetics, Chair of the Department of Human Genetics, and Professor of Human Genetics and Internal Medicine was named as one of thirteen UM faculty members elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Sally was recognized for distinguished contributions to research in the molecular mechanishms of pituitary action and outstanding contributions to academic administration and education of biomedical students.

L. Lacey Knowles, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is the new Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department. She is responsible for the admissions, recruitment, financial aid, and degree progress for all graduate students in the EEB program, along with chairing the Graduate Affairs Commitee and the Graduate Admissions Committee.

Priscilla Tucker, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is the new Associate Chair for undergraduate curriculum in the Department. The associate chair works with the faculty to determine teaching commitments, resolves student and curriculum issues, and chairs the department curriculum committee.

Miriam Meisler, Professor of Human Genetics, was named the Myron Levine Distinguished University Professor of Human Genetics. Distinguished university professorship is the highest professorial title granted at the University.

Patricia (Trisha) Wittkopp, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has been awarded the 2011 Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award for outstanding teaching of undergraduates. Recipients chosen by the LSA Executive Committee have demonstrated outstanding teaching at UM.

Jun Li, Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics, is a winner of the Johnson & Johnson/IMHRO Rising Star Translational Research Award for 2011. Dr. Li has led a variety of successful brain disorder research projects, and will use the grant to find a new approach to finding high-impact candidate genes for bipolar disorder, and to revealing commonalities in how they malfunction.

2010

Noah Rosenberg, Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Biostatistics, Research Associate Professor, Life Sciences Institute and Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, has received the 2010 Dean's Basic Science Research Award.

Mike DeGiorgio, Bioinformatics graduate student, is one of two recipients of this year's Program in Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research.

Jun Li, Assistant Professor, Human Genetics and Research Assistant Professor, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, has received the Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging award for 2010.

Margit Burmeister, Director, Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Professor, Department of Human Genetics and Psychiatry, Research Professor, Molecular & Behavioral Neurosciece Institute, was honored with an appointment as Distinguished Professor at the Bio-X Center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.

Stephen Gruber, Co-Director of the Genome Science Training Program, worked on a study that found a genetic variant affects how statins control both colorectal cancer and cardiovascular disease risk. The researchers findings are in the May 1 issue of Cancer Prevention Research.

March 2010

Assistant Professor Patricia Wittkopp received the Henry Russel Award, the most pretigious honor the University awards junior faculty. The award recognizes exceptional scholarship and conspicuous ability as a teacher, and includes a stipend of $1,200.

Dr. Wittkopp teaches Biology 305 Genetics and EEB/MCDB 404 Genetics, Development and Evolution. Recipients of the Henry Russel Award are chosen through a rigorous interdisciplinary review process involving some of university's most distinguished faculty, including former recipients of the award.

February 2010

Michael Boehnke, Director of the Genome Science Training Program, was named the Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics. Distinguished University Professor is the highest professorial title granted at the University.