Congratulations to our newest alumna, Ms. Jessica Yau! Jessica just received her B.S. in Bioengineering and earned our department's elite Honors certificate, awarded to just a handful of graduates each year.

A few words about Jessica: She joined the lab in January 2015 as a freshman at the University of Maryland. Jessica received numerous awards, including a prestigious HHMI Fellowship, and earlier this year, the 2018 Fischell Outstanding Leadership Award. Jessica will wrap up a research paper on her work this summer before beginning a position at the NIH as a Post Bac IRTA Fellow. She plans to attend graduate school after her 1 year IRTA fellowship.

Congratulations Jessica and stay in touch! We're proud of you...

Read more about Jessica on the team page.

Congratulations to Michelle Bookstaver, doctoral fellow in the lab, who has been selected for a 2nd award year on the NIH T32 Host Pathogens Interactions grant. Congratulations Michelle!

Read more about Michelle on the team page.

After a fierce competition spanning 3 brackets and 8 events in the 2018 Jewell Lab Olympics, graduate student Lampouguin Yenkoidiok-Douti came out on top with a gold medal, followed closely behind by graduate students Krystina Hess (Silver) and Josh Gammon (Bronze). Dr. Qin Zeng, postdoctoral researcher in the lab, earned honorable mention after a hotly contested tie-break that came down the a few 10,000ths. Congratulations to all the competitors!
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Want to hold your own lab Olympics? See how we did ours at the link. 

Prof. Jewell has been awarded the University of Maryland's 2018 Research Communicator Impact Award. The Research Communicator Impact Award was created in 2015 to honor UMD researchers who take a proactive approach to sharing their research or opinions on research issues and policies with the public. Researchers are nominated in three categories: faculty cited in the media, op-ed in news outlet, and new media. Dr. Jewell received the award in the "faculty cited in media" category for national media coverage during 2017 of his lab's research using nanotechnology to fight cancer and autoimmune disease, making these new ideas accessible to a broad audience.

Read more about Prof. Jewell on the team page. Thanks to the University for this honor!

Congratulations to Krystina Hess, DoD SMART Doctoral Fellow in the lab, for having her recent paper featured on the cover of the May 2018 issue of Transplanation.

Read the full original paper in Advanced Functional Materials, or learn more about Krystina on the team page.

Big day for Emily, who has been awarded the Graduate School’s Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award and who successfully defended her PhD proposal today. The Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award recognizes the outstanding contributions that Graduate Assistants provide to students, faculty, departments, administrative units, and the University as a whole. The award is bestowed upon the top 2% of campus Graduate Assistants. 

Congrats Emily - keep up the great work!

Read more about Emily on the team page.

Congratulations to Jessica Yau, HHMI Undergraduate Fellow in the lab, who successfully defended her honors thesis today. This completes Jessica's honors program for her bioengineering degree. Congrats Jessica!

Read more about Jessica on the team page.

Congratulations to Emily Gosselin, doctoral candidate in the lab, who has been selected as the recipient of the University of Maryland All-S.T.A.R. Fellowship. The University's All-S.T.A.R. Fellowship was established to honor graduate students who are both outstanding scholars and outstanding graduate assistants. Congrats Emily!
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Read more about Emily on the team page.

Congratulations to Michelle Bookstaver, NIH T32 Fellow, who today passed her PhD proposal defense. Keep up the great work!

Read more about Michelle on the team page.

Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Tostanoski, who has received the Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Prize. This award is presented each year to one candidate in each of four broad areas across the campus. This year Lisa is the University of Maryland's recipient for the Life Sciences discipline. Congrats Lisa!

Read more about Lisa on the team page.