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Excellence Awards

Dr. Silvia Ramos announced awards while sharing quotes from the nominators for this year’s excellence awards for staff and postdoctoral awards.聽

The winners of our BCBP 2024 Excellence Awards:

鈥淪ubmitting funding proposals is pretty stressful for the applicants, but Ellie is calm, knowledgeable, very responsive, and upbeat. She answers emails super-fast, and that makes the whole remote/on-campus relationship seamless.鈥�

鈥淓llie was pivotal in supporting my first grant application as faculty. She helped me develop a budget that I can adapt for other proposals and thoroughly explained considerations for planning to cover salaries for new hires.鈥�

鈥淓llie helped us submit two instrument grants one NIH one NSF and did an amazing job鈥�

鈥淪he is professional, gets things done, and has a great attitude.鈥�

鈥淪he is amazing and has done a great job in the transition as Jean became chair all while filling Lynn’s shoes.鈥�

鈥淚’d like to nominate Latasha because I feel she’s done an incredible job of going above and beyond her job description. She’s done a wonderful job of modeling enthusiasm, leadership, and a positive attitude for the administrative team and I so appreciate all of the care she puts into the department and her colleagues!鈥�

鈥淚’m a first year student. Leiah Carey has helped me acclimate and feel included in the department. She is always willing to discuss her experiments and the techniques she uses in the lab.鈥�

鈥渇or continually being a resource to the department and helping with all sorts of research questions and departmental equipment鈥�

鈥淪he does extra service work (helps with autoclaves and trains new students in her lab). She has a great, professional attitude and a sense of humor.鈥� 鈥淟eiah is wondefully kind and generous with her time and expertise.鈥� 鈥淟eiah is a really hard working researcher, that finds time to help in projects from other people in the lab, helping a lot with the teamwork in the lab. She has an enormous knowledge in protein analysis by NMR and crystallography” “She helped write the department equipment supplements that brought in a new shaker in 2023 and new autoclave this year. Leiah helped update our department equipment documentation, which was quite out of date. Leiah also served on the retreat committee last year and played a major role in retreat organization and organizing the poster sessions. Given her 鈥榞oto鈥� reputation, members from other labs within the department seek her out and she is always willing to help. Leiah is a rare gem and vital part of our department and is worthy of this award.鈥�

鈥淢artha Johnson has served as a leader organizing campus-wide postdoc events for 黑料网 PDA- BIPOC Postdoc Alliance, or regionally for grad student/postdocs in the NC triangle through a service organization she co-founded (Phoward N Black). Martha has also impacted undergraduate education by teaching courses as an instructor of record in 黑料网’s chemistry department, all while maintaining her own successful research activities.鈥�

鈥淒r. Johnson has put so much effort in DEI and outreach activities over the past few years in the BCBP department as well as across 黑料网 in general. She works tirelessly to make people around her feel included and celebrated for their achievements. She is also leading a big group of stellar undergraduate students who are working on a super creative project that will culminate into a publication very soon.鈥�

Read about our student award news here.