Successes

Examples of Recent Awards and Advancements

FACULTY/INVESTIGATORS

INVESTIGATOR
INSTITUTE
ACTIVITY OR AWARD/HONOR
Ben Harrison, Ph.D.
UofL/KBRIN
ADVANCEMENT: Completed postdoctoral training under KSCIRC and KBRIN. 2016 advanced to Assistant Professor, Biomedical Science Department of the University of New England
Pat Calie, Ph.D.
EKU
AWARD: EKU Critical Thinking Teacher of the Year [2012]
Rebekah Waikel, Ph.D.
EKU
ADVANCEMENT: Early promotion to Associate Professor
Cecile Marczinski, Ph.D.
NKU
AWARD: R15 [2010],
MEDIA: Research featured in NPR, NBC News [2011];
PUBLICATIONS: since 2008: 12+ publications, one book, another in progress.
Michael Smith, Ph.D.
WKU
AWARD: College Award for Research/Creativity, Ogden College of Science and Engineering [2013]
Nancy Rice, Ph.D.
WKU
AWARD: 2013 University Award for Public Service [2013]
Rodney King, Ph.D.
WKU
ADVANCEMENT: Promotion to Full Professor [2013]

GRADUATE STUDENTS

GRADUATE STUDENTS
INSTITUTE
ACTIVITY OR AWARD/HONOR
Tricia Holden
EKU
ADVANCEMENT: M.S. completed (w/Rebekah Waikel); Research Associate at UC Children’s Hosp. & Med. Center
Jennie Dumaine
WKU
ADVANCEMENT: M.S. completed (w/Noah Ashley); Masters research published in The American Journal of Physiology; Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology; Research interest: Tropical & Emerging Global Diseases
Laura Ashley Gilliam
Morehead State University
ADVANCEMENT: Ph.D. University of Kentucky, Department of Physiology; Postdoctoral Training, East Carolina University, Departments of Physiology & Kinesiology; Research interest: skeletal muscle fatigue caused by cancer chemotherapy
Jordan Wagge
NKU
ADVANCEMENT: Ph.D. from Miami Univ., tenure-track Psychology faculty at Avila College.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
INSTITUTE
ACTIVITY OR AWARD/HONOR
Julie Castaneda
EKU
ADVANCEMENT: Undergraduate research (w/Rebekah Waikel); Ph.D. program/CMB at UCLA Medical Center
Meredith Blankenship
NKU
ADVANCEMENT: Ph.D program in Neuroscience in Brandeis University
Jordan Olberding*
WKU
ADVANCEMENT: PhD Program, Yale [2013]

* KBRIN Summer Undergraduate Biomedical Research Program Participant