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Society for Developmental Biology 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA Phone: (301) 634-7815 — Fax: (301) 634-7825 |
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The 2017 Society for Developmental Biology Edwin G.
Conklin Medal was awarded to Philippe M. Soriano of
the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for his
extraordinary and sustained research contributions
to the field of developmental biology and mentoring
of the next generation of scientists.
Maria Barna, Assistant Professor of Genetics and Developmental Biology at
Stanford University, received the inaugural Society
for Developmental Biology Elizabeth D. Hay New
Investigator Award for her outstanding research in
developmental biology during the early stages of her
independent career.
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, President of the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) was
awarded the 2017 Viktor Hamburger Outstanding
Educator Prize for his outstanding contributions to
developmental biology education through his advocacy
for science education and groundbreaking initiatives
for increasing diversity within the sciences.
This summer I was a student, along with 23 other
scientists from around the world, in the 125th
Embryology Course at the Marine Biological
Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The
Embryology Course is an intensive 6-week experience,
combining morning lectures from over 40 faculty
members with afternoon/evening labs covering a host
of traditional and non-traditional model organisms. 
This past summer, we presented an Education Poster
at the SDB Annual meeting in Minneapolis, MN. Our
poster highlighted a recent student-centered
creative writing project. We used Frontiers for
Young Minds as a platform to “translate” our
research into simpler text that children without an
extensive scientific education could understand.
