Recent Student Awards

Academic Year 2022-2023

Jonathan Stewart and Jessica Wenclawiak won first and second place in the platform presentations at the SETAC Carolina Chapter meeting

Anna Quintrell and Courtney Saldaña were awarded Joanna Deepwater Fellowships

Hannah Linde, Dimitrios Kyridis, Ethan Johnson and Ian Rolfe received a CofC Presidential Summer Research Award in Marine Biology

Leah DiMaggio was awarded a Barans Marine Biology Fellowship

Gautam Ghosh, Adam Ziegler, Hannah Korper and Mikayla Sonnenfeld were awarded Marine Genomics Fellowships

Rachel Radick received the Ralph A. Lewin Award for Best Poster Presentation from the Phycological Society of America

Lexi Mitchell received a scholarship from the Southern Shrimp Alliance and was awarded a Michael Castagna Student Research Grant for Applied Research from the National Shellfisheries Association

Luke Troha received the SCFWA award for best student paper at the SC American Fisheries Society

Kerryanne Litzenberg won 1st place at the CoC Graduate School Three Minute Thesis competition

Kassidy Lange was awarded a fellowship to the Benthic Cnidaria Workshop in Panama sponsored by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. She also won Best Poster at the Gordon Research Conference for Mesophotic Coral Reefs

Courtney Saldaña won the People’s Choice Award at the 16th Annual Graduate Research Poster Session.

Jess Kusher was awarded a NSF fellowship to attend Cyber Training at UNCW. She was also accepted into the Rev Up SC Professional Development Program.