Nora is one of the first students to receive a new award offered by the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta. The Dissertation Award for the 2019 Fall term commences today. Congrats, Nora!
Kevin is Awarded an Alberta Innovates Scholarship!
Kevin wins the Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship for his Masters degree! Congrats Kevin!
Another Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship for Tania
Tania is awarded the 2016 Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research. This is her second time winning this award (the first time was in 2013). Congratulations!
Tania Wins the Dean's Academic Excellence Award
Tania is the recipient of the Dean's Academic Excellence Award. This award is given by the Dean of the Faculty of Science. Congratulations Tania!
Fabini Wins the BMO Financial Group Graduate Scholarship
Fabini is the recipient of the Bank of Montreal (BMO) Financial Group Graduate Scholarship, which is endowed by BMO to "support the recruitment and retention of outstanding graduate students at the University of Alberta." His award will commence on September 1, 2016. Congratulations!
Tareq Joins the Lab
Tareq Islam officially joins the Boucher Lab for his Ph.D.! He is originally from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Microbiology from the University of Dhaka. He worked as a Senior Research Officer in the Enteric and Food Microbiology Lab at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) with Dr. Munirul Alam. He also worked as a visiting researcher in Dr. Rita Colwell-Dr. Anwar Huq's lab at the University of Maryland, College Park during his tenure at icddr,b. Back in the summer of 2014, Tareq assisted Yan and Tania during their field work in Bangladesh to isolate Vibrio cholerae from various regions of the Ganges Delta.
Tareq is the recipient of two awards – the University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship and the Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures Graduate Student Scholarship.
Welcome Tareq!
Tareq is ready for winter in Edmonton
FGSR Teaching Award for Tania
Tania is one of the recipients of the 2015 Graduate Student Teaching Award from the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research (FGSR). Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer, Dean of the Faculty of Science, hosted a lunch get-together for all awardees at the Faculty Club. Congratulations!
Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer and Tania during the awarding ceremony
2015 AITF Graduate Student Scholarship Awardees
Congratulations to Tania and incoming Ph.D. student Tareq for receiving the Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures (AITF) Graduate Student Scholarships!
Tania is also currently a holder of the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship – Doctoral award. Tareq will join the lab in the fall and is also the recipient of the University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship.
Award of Excellence in Teaching for Tania Two Years in a Row
Congratulations to Tania for receiving the Award of Excellence in Teaching from the Interdepartmental Science Students' Society of the University of Alberta. The ceremony was held at the Faculty Club on January 30, 2015. She also won the award last year.
Publication Awards for the Boucher Lab
Yan, Fabini, and co-authors, lead by Dr. Lee Katz and Dr. Cheryl Tarr of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), received two prestigious CDC awards in recognition of their paper entitled "Evolutionary dynamics of Vibrio cholerae O1 following a single-source introduction to Haiti," published in the journal mBio on July 2, 2013.
For their work, the group received the James H. Nakano Citation Award from the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) for one of the best papers of 2013 and a Charles C. Shepard Award nomination (Laboratory Science category) from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
The awards were accepted by members of the CDC group during the ceremony (pictured below).
Accepting the James H. Nakano Citation Award at the CDC (from left): Nakano's son, Lori Gladney, Lee Katz, Cheryl Tarr, Beth Bell (director of NCEZID), Maryann Turnsek, and Molly Freeman (photo by Lee Katz)