April 30, 2008

Congratulations to Linda Y. Johnson, Ph.D., Associate Professor!

Her passion for teaching is a featured article in the School of Medicine magazine!
Please view Dr. Johnson's feature article in PDF format.

Click Here to read the School of Medicine - SOM FUTURE magazine.

April 25, 2008

Congratulations to Arlan G. Richardson, Ph.D., Professor and
Holly Van Remmen, Ph.D., Associate Professor!

They are participants in a program project grant with faculty at the University of Michigan. Funding is to begin May 1, 2008!

April 21, 2008

Arlan Richardson, Ph.D., to receive aging society's top award
Arlan G. Richardson, Ph.D., Professor
Congratulations to Arlan Richardson, recipient of
The Irving S. Wright Award of Distinction

The Wright Award Lecture will be given at the Gerontological Society of America’s annual meeting in National Harbor, Maryland on Saturday, November 22, 2008.

April 17, 2008

Charleen M. Moore, Ph.D., Professor
Congratulations to Dr. Charleen Moore on her celebration of 35 years of service. Charleen Moore, Ph.D., Professor of Cellular and Structural Biology, is honored for her 35 years of service with a commemorative plaque from President Cigarroa.

April 1, 2008

Omid Rahimi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Congratulations to Dr. Omid Rahimi!
He is the recipient of the Barbara Sanford Preclinical Teaching Award.

March 26, 2008

Kristine S. Vogel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Congratulations to Dr. Kris Vogel!
She will be tenured effective September 1, 2008. This is a well deserved recognition of her importance to the Department and the HSC.

March 26, 2008

Victoria Frohlich, Ph.D.
Congratulations to Dr. Vick Frohlich on receiving funding from NIH on a shared instrumentation grant for a new scanner for the Olympus Confocal.

March 19, 2008

Buchanan recognized for 35 years of service:
James Buchanan, Research Associate in the department of Cellular and Structural Biology, is honored for his 35 years of service with a commemorative plaque from President Cigarroa.

Congratulations to Cellular & Structural Biology member Jim Buchanan, who received his 35 year service plaque from Dr. Francisco Cigarroa, President of the Health Science Center, at a service awards ceremony.

The Department of CSB sincerely appreciates Jim for his dedication and unwavering support of our growing department. His contributions are immeasurable and we thank him for his outstanding commitment, support and service!

February 26, 2008

Russel J. Reiter, Ph.D., Professor
Congratulations to Dr. Reiter!
He recently appeared in Science Watch under Fast Breaking Papers for the Article Title: One molecule, many derivatives: A never-ending interaction of melatonin with reactive oxygen and nitrogen species?
Click here to read the February 2008 Fast Breaking Paper on Dr. Reiter!

February 5, 2008

Ellen Kraig, Ph.D., Professor
Congratulations to Dr. Ellen Kraig!
She received the American Association of Immunologists Distinguished Service Award.
Click here to read the article in the San Antonio Business Journal: National science group honors local immunologist.

January 25, 2008

Charles Keller, MD., Assistant Professor
Congratulations to Charles Keller on being named one of 40 Under Forty Rising Stars by the San Antonio Business Journal!

January, 2008

Sgt Robert W. Nichols, 19 March 1976 – 22 January 2008
Our sincere condolences go out to his family and friends. We all mourn this tragic loss.
Robert Nichols Obituary and View/Sign guestbook.

November 26, 2007

24 honored at the 2008 Presidential Award Ceremony (Feb. 2008)
Omid Rahimi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Congratulations to Dr. Omid Rahimi, a recipient of the Presidential Teaching Award this year.
Dr. Rahimi joins Dr. Sue Naylor in this distinguished honor! Congratulations to both Dr. Rahimi and Dr. Naylor! What a great display of teaching excellence from CSB faculty!

November 20, 2007

24 honored at the 2008 Presidential Award Ceremony (Feb. 2008)
Susan L. Naylor, Ph.D., Professor
Congratulations to Dr. Sue Naylor, the recipient of the Presidential Teaching Award this year. Congratulations Dr. Naylor!

Also, Sue Naylor has joined Russ Reiter in ISI’s Highly Cited authors. The web page is http://isihighlycited.com. You can find the web pages for Sue and Russ at this web site. Way to go!

November 17, 2007

Annual PowderPuff football game. MS I vs MS II
Our fearless teaching professionals,(left to right)
Dr Moore, Dr. Sakaguchi, Dr. Vogel and Dr. Johnson demonstrated
their unique out-of-classroom talents in this match-up.
Game Results! Click here

September 21, 2007

Faculty Senate presents awards to Drs. Startzell and Walter
Christi A. Walter, Ph.D., Professor, Interim Chair
Congratulation to Dr. Christi Walter, Ph.D., our Interim Chair of the Department of Cellular and Structural Biology for receiving the Faculty Senate's 1st Administrative Leadership award! Congratulations Dr. Walter!

September 12, 2007

Dear CSB Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellows, Students and Administrative Staff,

I would like to extend my appreciation to Dr. Robin Leach and Yolanda Zahorik for organizing a great retreat. I’d like to also acknowledge Anne Stevens’ contributions to the retreat. Thanks to each participant for being engaged in this departmental function. Your involvement is a major factor in the success of the retreat. For those unable to attend I’ve tried to summarize below the awards presented or acknowledged at the retreat. Each of the awardees is highly deserving and I extend my congratulations to each.

• Award for Excellence in Health Professional Student Education – Kris Vogel
• Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Education – Bill Morgan
• Guarino Award for M.S. Student – Blair Barnett
• Guarino Award for Ph.D. Student – Florian Muller
• Barbara Bowman Postdoctoral Fellow Award – Anson Pierce
• Carillo Award – Bijal Karia
• Barbara Bowman Graduate Student Award – Erik Verona

• Tenured Professor – Linda Johnson
• Tenured Associate Professor - Lily Dong
• Tenured Associate Professor - Pam Larsen
• Tenured Associate Professor – Holly Van Remmen
Chris


Christi A. Walter, Ph.D.
Professor & Interim Chair
Department of Cellular & Structural Biology

September 4, 2007

LuZhe Sun, Ph.D., Professor
Congratulations to LuZhe Sun. He has been successful in getting an R01 funded as a competitive renewal!

August 27, 2007

Six faculty named distinguished teaching professors
Congratulations to Dr. Johnson and Dr. Kraig for their recognition by the Health Science Center as Distinguished Teaching Professors. This honor is with approval from The University of Texas Academy of Health Science Education due to their significant, outstanding contributions to education.

Linda Y. Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor of Cellular and Structural Biology in the
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Ellen Kraig, Ph.D.
Professor of Cellular and Structural Biology in the
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

August 2, 2007

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences bestows awards

Congratulations to Blair Barnett for being named the recipient of the "Guarino Award for Academic Excellence" in M.S. studies.


Congratulations are also due to Dr. Florian Muller, the recipient of the "Guarino Award for Academic Excellence" in Doctoral studies.


Dr. Anson Pierce is one recipient of the "Barbarah H. Bowman Scholarship"! Congratulations to Dr. Pierce on this award.

July 27, 2007

Throttling up tiny power plants may protect nerve cells
James D. Lechleiter, Ph.D., Professor

June 27, 2007

Susan L. Naylor, Ph.D., Professor
Congratulations to Dr. Sue Naylor, the recipient of a new "Nathan Shock Pilot Grant Award".

Ran to receive Nathan Shock New Investigator Award
Qitao Ran, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Congratulations to Qitao Ran. He is the 2007 recipient of the "Nathan Shock New Investigator Award". This is the result of a national competition with the award coming from the Gerontological Society of America.

Williams wins NIA Aging Research Dissertation Award
Congratulations to Earlanda Williams, a graduate student in Ellen Kraig’s laboratory, for getting an R36 application funded by the NIA/NIH. The R36 Research Dissertation Award to Increase Diversity program is a relatively new one at NIA and it is highly competitive, awarding only 6-8 grants per year. The grant is a 2 year research grant that covers both training expenses and research costs. Landa's proposal is titled "Effects of aging on immunity and autoimmunity".

June 5, 2007

Congratulations to Viviana Perez, Postdoctoral Fellow. She received the "Paul F. Glenn Award" for best postdoctoral fellow poster at the 2007 AGE meeting this past weekend!

May 31, 2007

Barshop Institute, other NIA-funded centers spotlighted

Arlan G. Richardson, Ph.D.
The Barshop Center for Longevity and Aging Studies Website

May 25, 2007

Congratulations to Kaoru Tominaga, Ph.D., Assistant Professor/Research! His American Heart Association grant will be funded. He earned an extremely good percentile, 5.67.

May 7, 2007

Susan L. Naylor, Ph.D., Professor
Congratulations to Dr. Sue Naylor, the 2007 recipient of the Graduate Dean’s Award for Exceptional Graduate Teaching.

May 3, 2007

Barshop Institute to be featured on KLRN Encore channel
Monday, May 28th at 2:00 p.m.

Congratulations to Barshop Director
Arlan G. Richardson, Ph.D. and Steven N. Austad, Ph.D.!
The Barshop Center for Longevity and Aging Studies Website

May 1, 2007

Christi A. Walter, Ph.D., Professor, Interim Chair
Nominated by fellow colleagues in CSB, Dr. Christi A. Walter has been honored with the
Faculty Senate’s first Administrators Award. Congratulations Dr. Walter!

April 20, 2007

Respectful burial provided for bodies donated for educational purposes

Ron Philo, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
Director, Willed Body Program

April 12, 2007

Researcher receives $200,000 Kimmel Scholar Award to study ‘Warburg effect’
Congratulations to Patricia Dahia for receiving a Sidney Kimmel Foundation Scholar Award.
She competed successfully among 170 applicants!

Patricia Dahia, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine and Cellular & Structural Biology

March 21, 2007

HSC announces $1.2 million for Edinburg research.

Robin J. Leach, Ph.D., Professor and Co-Director of the Genomics Resource Core will assist in the development of the Edinburg research program.

February 28, 2007

HSC collaborates to study safety of assisted reproductive technologies

Christi Walter, Ph.D., Professor, Interim Chair and
Director of the Transgenic Services Core.