 | Elissa A. Hallem |
Recent Yale graduate Elissa A. Hallem has received the nation's most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations in biology and life sciences, the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS)/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Hallem's dissertation on olfactory neurobiology, "The Role of Odorant Receptors in Odor Coding," presents research that could form the basis of new biological controls against disease-carrying insects and agricultural pests. She was nominated for the award by Yale, where she completed her doctorate in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Development Biology (MCDB) in 2005. She is continuing her work in a postdoctoral position at the California Institute of Technology.
"Elissa was an extraordinary student, immensely talented and exceptionally motivated, and I'm delighted to see her honored in this way," says her mentor John Carlson, the Eugene Higgins Professor of MCDB. "Elissa showed amazing problem-solving ability and enormous dedication to her work. She has mature judgment and a keen intuition for how biological systems work. She has a wonderful future ahead of her."
The chair of her department, Sterling Professor Thomas Pollard, says, "With her hard work and creativity, Elissa has set a great example for all our graduate students."
Her thesis work also earned other prestigious national awards -- the 2005 Larry Sandler Award for the most outstanding Ph.D. dissertation in an area of Drosophila research, and a 2005 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award.
Now in its 24th year, the CGS/UNI award recognizes doctoral scholars who contribute exceptionally to their fields. ProQuest's UMI, the nation's dissertation publisher, sponsors the award and CGS selects the winners. Two awards are given each year, rotating among four general areas of scholarship.
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