Gill Graduate Awards

2026 Gill Symposium & Awards

Save the date for the 2026 Gill Symposium and Awards at the Indiana Memorial Union: September 16, 2026!

Gill Institute Graduate Awards

History of the awards

Beginning in 2011, The Gill Institute began recognizing an outstanding graduate student in the Life Sciences. This was an annual award, open to students from IUB, IUI, University of Notre Dame and Purdue. We have paused this award for 2024's Symposium, but we hope to see this award in our program again in the future. Until then, take a look at prior years' awardees.

Joel Matthew Brittain, 2011 Graduate Awardee

Kathryn D. Fisher, 2012 Graduate Awardee, with Dr. Cary Lai

Vijay K. Ramanan, 2013 Graduate Awardee, with Linda and Jack Gill and Dr. Cary Lai

Karl R. Koehler & Erkin Kuru, 2014 Graduate Awardees, with Dr. Cary Lai

Liting Deng, 2015 Graduate Awardee, with Dr. Andrea Hohmann and Dr. Cary Lai

Reesha R. Patel, 2016 Graduate Awardee, with Dr. Dan Tracey

Emma Leishmann and Ekaterina O. Morozova, 2017 Graduate Awardees, with Dr. Cary Lai photo by Ann Schertz

Dr. Dan Tracey presenting the 2018 Gill Graduate Student Honorable Mention award to Dr. Richard Slivicki. Pictured with Dr. Andrea Hohmann, who was Dr. Slivicki's advisor. photo by Ann Schertz

Danielle Panoz-Brown is presented the 2019 Gill Graduate Award by Dr. and Mrs. Jack Gill, her Advisor, Dr. Jon Crystal, and Gill Center Director, Dr. Hui-Chen Lu. photo by Miximillian Tortoriello

Ninghai Gan, Ph.D.—2020 Gill Graduate Awardee at the first ever Virtual Symposium and Awards Ceremony

Ian Guldner, Ph.D.—2021 Gill Graduate Awardee

Andy P Tsai, Ph.D. - 2022 Gill Graduate Awardee

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