| Congratulations to the SMBE 2009 Award Winners! |
| Undergraduate Diversity Mentoring Program Awards |
| Lauren Alvarez, Queen College, City University of New York, USA |
| Katie Clowers, Kansas State University, USA |
| Gerardo Antonio Cordero, Iowa State University, USA |
| Hilda Crispin, Lehman College, City University of New York, USA |
| Stephen Goo, Creighton University, USA |
| Silvia Martinez-Gerard, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Columbia |
| Desiree Mosley, Texas A & M, USA |
| Spencer Neal, University of Iowa, USA |
| Angela Schlegel, University of Arizona, USA |
| Sheryl Walker, Purdue University, USA |
| Ben Wilson, University of Arizona, USA |
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| Walter M. Fitch Student Award Finalists |
| Joshua Bayes, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA |
| Hua Chen, Harvard Medical School, USA |
| Geoffrey Findlay, University of Washington, USA |
| Jesse Hollister, University of California-Irvine, USA |
| Lynn Huynh, Emory University, USA |
| Wenli Li, Indiana University, USA |
| Sujal Phadke, University of Houston, USA |
| Laurie Stevison, Duke University, USA |
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| Graduate Student Travel Awards |
| Carlo Artieri, McMaster University, Canada |
| Heather Flores, Cornell University, USA |
| Daniel Gaston, Dalhousie University, Canada |
| Toni Gossmann, University of Sussex, UK |
| Angela Hancock, University of Chicago, USA |
| Yong Huang, Iowa State University, USA |
| Pan-Pan Jiang, Harvard University, USA |
| Yuannian Jiao, Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Olga Kamneva, University of Wyoming, USA |
| Erin Kelleher, University of Arizona, USA |
| Anne Kupczok, Center for Integrative Bioinformatics, Austria |
| Amanda Larracuente, Cornell University, USA |
| Honour McCann, University of Toronto, Canada |
| Graham McVicker, University of Washington, USA |
| Jessie Nicodemus-Johnson, University of Illinois, USA |
| Wenfeng Qian, University of Michigan, USA |
| Rori Rohlfs, University of Washington, USA |
| Julia Schwarzer, Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum A Koenig, Germany |
| Daniel Sloan, University of Virginia, USA |
| James Walters, Cornell University, USA |
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| Postdoctoral Travel Awards |
| Cheong X. Chan, University of Iowa, USA |
| Nathaniel Clark, Cornell University, USA |
| Patrick Ferree, Cornell University, USA |
| José Ignacio Lucas Lledó, Indiana University, USA |
| Richard Meisel, Cornell University, USA |
| Nitin Phadnis, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA |
| Ori Sargsyan, Harvard University, USA |
| Sarah Schaack, University of Texas-Arlington, USA |
| Nina Stoletszki, University of Sussex, UK |
| Huaichun Wang, Dalhousie University, Canada |
| Joanna Kelley, University of Chicago, USA |
