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Student Successes

Lauren Beugelsdyk

Lauren is a 2026 Future Faculty Fellow.

Kendall Clay

Kendall was accepted to the MDI ReBiLD course in Maine. She has also been inducted into Blue Key Honor Society and awarded the George Hugh Boyd Memorial Scholarship. Her F31 grant was renewed, and her co-first author with Taylor Medlock-Lanier is preprinted and under review. Kendall is also a 3MT finalist.

Rachel King

Rachel, a volunteer research assistant in Shaolin Liu’s Lab, was acknowledged as “one of the top presenters” at this year’s Steeve Giguère Science of Veterinary Medicine Symposium.

Marie LaCour

Marie’s Shaolin Liu Lab was featured on the cover of JNeurosci. She is the first Neuroscience PhD student to be commenced into the GradLEAD program. Marie was also selected by the Capstone board to lead a team of engineering students through the design and prototyping process for their Capstone project (2024-2025), which was displayed at the Engineering Design Showcase.

Laura Loera Lopez

Laura from the Noble Lab published a first author paper, “Astrocytes of the hippocampus and responses to periprandial neuroendocrine hormones,” in Physiology & Behavior.

Austin Mills

Austin from the Noble Lab won the Gerard P. Smith Award for best oral presentation given by a graduate student at the 2025 Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB) Annual Meeting in Oxford, UK. Austin passed his qualifying exam in the Fall 2025 semester.

Sneha Mohan

Sneha received the Trainee Professional Development award from Society for Neuroscience in 2024. She was also a recipient of the Marcus Fechheimer and Ruth Furukawa award for Excellence in Cellular Biology in 2025.