| Date | Name | Kudos! |
|---|---|---|
| November 2022 | Dr. Yen-Chu Chen | Congratulations on your Dissertation and receiving your PhD!! **Dr. Yen-Chu Chen** |
| November 2022 | Samantha Cheeks | Congratulations of receiving the Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) from the Society for Neuroscience! |
| September 2022 | Malia Bautista | Congratulations on receiving the John W. Haycock Memorial Graduate Student Travel Award from the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory! |
| July 2022 | Dr. Yasmine Sherafat | Congratulations on starting up your new research lab at California State University San Marcos as tenure-track Assistant Professor! |
| July 2022 | Dr. Angeline Dukes | Congratulations on your position as a teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota! We also look forward to seeing the results of your leadership with diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives! |
| July 2022 | Malia Bautista | Congratulations on being awarded the Predoctoral Fellowship from the Tobacco and Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) to support your research from 2022-2025! |
| June 2022 | Samantha Cheeks | Congratulations on being awarded the NIH Diversity Supplement! |
| June 2022 | Dr. Angeline Dukes | Congratulations on your Dissertation and receiving your PhD!! **Dr. Angeline Dukes** |
| June 2022 | Fiona Vu | Congratulations on receiving the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Summer Proposal grant! |
| February 2022 | Malia Bautista | Congratulations of receiving an Honorable Mention for your application to the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP)! |
| January 2022 | Angeline Dukes | Congratulations on being awarded the Outstanding Grad Student Award from UCI! |
| September 2021 | Yen-Chu Chen | Congratulations on receiving the Renee Harwick Advanced Graduate Student Award from the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory! |
| July 2021 | Angeline Dukes | Congratulations on being acknowledged with the “Most Promising Future Faculty Award”! |
| July 2021 | Angeline Dukes | Congratulations on becoming a trainee on the NIDA Addiction T32 Training Grant! |
| June 2021 | Angeline Dukes | Congratulations on receiving the UC Irvine Summer Inclusive Excellence Grant! |
| June 2021 | Dr. Yasmine Sherafat | Congratulations on your Dissertation and receiving your PhD!! **Dr. Yasmine Sherafat** |
| February 2021 | Yasmine Sherafat | Congratulations on being awarded the ‘Best Poster Award’ from the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT)! |
| February 2021 | Valeria Lallai | Congratulations on receiving the Postdoctoral Travel Award from the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT)! |
| February 2021 | Angeline Dukes | Congratulations on receiving the Predoctoral Travel Award from the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT)! |
| September 2020 | Yasmine Sheraffat | Congratulations on receiving the Renee Harwick Advanced Graduate Student Award from the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory! |
| August 2020 | Angeline Dukes | Congratulations on leading a successful #BlackInNeuro week! Check it out at: www.blackinneuro.com |
| July 2020 | Yasmine Sherafat | Congratulations on receiving your F31 NRSA training grant from NIH! |
| July 2020 | Angeline Dukes | Congratulations on your first author paper receiving the ‘Editor’s Choice’ in Nicotine and Tobacco Research! |
| July 2020 | Alexandra Awwad | Congratulations on receiving your Summer Undergraduate Research Proposal Fellowship at UCI! |
| June 2020 | Yasmine Sherafat | Congratulations on being accepted into the Pre-Professor Program at Cal State Long Beach! |
| June 2020 | Angeline Dukes | Congratulations on becoming a Fellow in the Neuroscience Scholars Program with the Society for Neuroscience! |
| May 2020 | Yasmine Sherafat | Congratulations on being awarded the Renee Hardwick Advanced Graduate Student Award! |
| April 2020 | Yasmine Sherafat | Congratulations on receiving the Presidential Dissertation Honorable Mention Award at UCI! |
| May 2020 | Christie Fowler | Congratulations on becoming a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior! |
| March 2020 | Malia Bautista | Congratulations on being accepted into the UCI INP Graduate Program! |
| February 2020 | Angelique Cortez | Congratulations on your Undergraduate First Place Brain & Behavior category award from AAAS! |
| December 2019 | Adriana Hernandez | Congratulations on being accepted into the University of Pennsylvania Graduate Program!! We will miss you in the lab! |
| November 2019 | Valeria Lallai | Congratulations for receiving the BioLegend Junior Investigator Travel Award! |
| November 2019 | Rosa Serrano | Congratulations on receiving a ABRCMS 2019 Presentation Award for the project: “Rosa G. Serrano, A.J. Dukes, A. Pushkin, J.P. Fowler, V. Lallai, C.D. Fowler. The effects of adolescent nicotine and cannabinoid exposure on adult behavior.” |
| October 2019 | Angeline Dukes | Congratulations on receiving the Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience Best Datablitz Presentation Award and the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Health Disparities Network Travel Scholarship! |
| July 2019 | Valeria Lallai | Congratulations on receiving the TRDRP 2019B – Postdoctoral Fellowship Award! |
| July 2019 | Eashan Reddy Kotha | Congratulations on receiving the Summer Undergraduate Research Program Fellowship and UROP Grant! |
| June 2019 | Valeria Lallai | Congratulations on receiving the Dean’s Early Career Research Excellence Award! |
| June 2019 | Angeline Dukes | Congratulations on receiving the Summer Program in Neuroscience, Excellence, and Success (SPINES) Fellowship! |
| May 2019 | Angeline Dukes | Congratulations on receiving the Center for Neurobiology Learning and Memory Norman A. Weinberger Memorial Award! |
| April 2019 | Yasmine Sherafat | Congratulations on your oral presentations at the annual CNLM meeting! |
| April 2019 | Angeline Dukes | Congratulations on your oral presentations at the annual CNLM meeting! |
| January 2019 | Malia Bautista and Andres Staben | Congratulations on receiving the UCI UROP grant! |
| September 2018 | Edison Chen | Good luck in medical school at the University of Iowa!! We will miss you! |
| September 2018 | Anna Pushkin | Good luck in your PhD program at the University of Southern California!! We will miss you! |
| May 2018 | Anna Pushkin | Congratulations for successfully completing the UC Smoke and Tobacco Free Fellowship!  |
| April 2018 | Anna Pushkin | Congratulations for receiving Excellence in Research, Biological Sciences @ UCI! |
| April 2018 | Amina Ahmed | Congratulations for receiving Excellence in Research, Biological Sciences @ UCI! |
| April 2018 | Angeline Eugene | Congratulations for receiving the NSF GRFP Fellowship with her proposal entitled ‘The Impact of Early Nicotine and Cannabinoid Exposure on Neural Function in Adulthood’! |
| July 2017 | Anna Pushkin | Congratulations for receiving the University of California Smoke and Tobacco Free Fellowship with her proposal entitled ‘Adolescent Cannabinoid and Nicotine Exposure: Research Investigations and Community Impact’! |
| July 2017 | Anna Pushkin | Congratulations for receiving the Summer Undergraduate Research Program Fellowship! |
| June 2017 | Angeline Eugene | Congratulations for receiving the Summer Undergraduate Research Program Fellowship! |
| May 2017 | Edison Chen | Congratulations for receiving the Poster Award, Excellence in Research, Biological Sciences, UCI! |
