Rebecca Deaton, Outstanding Graduate Student, 2004
Each year, the Graduate Council selects the recipient of the
Graduate Faculty Award for the Outstanding Graduate. This award
recognizes a student who completed his/her graduate work during
the past year, who excelled in all aspects of graduate education
and who shows great promise as a research scientist. It is
the highest award given to a student in the Graduate School
of Biomedical Sciences. This year’s recipient is 2004
GSBS graduate Rebecca Deaton, PhD.
Dr. Deaton performed her doctoral research in biomedical sciences
under the direction of Stephen Grant, PhD, associate professor
of integrative physiology. She was selected twice as the discipline’s
outstanding graduate student and received Research Appreciation
Day honors in 2000, 2003 and 2004. She was a member of Sigma
Xi, The International Research Society in 2003. In addition,
Dr. Deaton served the Graduate Student Association as an officer
for three consecutive years as secretary, vice president and
president. GSA also honored her as the outstanding member for
2000-01 and 2001-02.
Dr. Deaton will begin a prestigious NIH postdoctoral fellowship
in the laboratory of Gary Owen, PhD, at the University of Virginia ’s
Cardiovascular Research Center this summer.
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