Awards

People

Dr. Beane

2024 Excellence in Research Award
Office of Research and Innovation, Western Michigan University

2023 Emerging (Faculty) Scholar Award
Western Michigan University

2021 Presidential Innovation Professorship (Award)
President, Provost, and Vice President for Research & Innovation, Western Michigan University

2021 Darrell R. Latva Biological Sciences Teaching Excellence Award
Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University

2018   Honorary Faculty Fellow (Award)
Lee Honors College, Western Michigan University

2018   Excellence in Discovery Award
Western Michigan University

2018   Distinguished Research & Creative Scholarship Award
Office of the Vice President for Research, Western Michigan University

2017 NSF CAREER Award
Division of Integrative Organismal Systems, National Science Foundation

Beane Lab Graduate Students

2022- Jana Vučković, Doctoral Graduate Student

WMU Graduate College Graduate Student Travel Award, 2023 (Spring)

Fulbright Fellowship (Serbia) 2022-24

2022- Rae Daun Miller, Masters Graduate Student

Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) Travel Award, 2023

2019- Samantha Hack, Doctoral Graduate Student

Distinguished Graduate Student in Biological Sciences, 2024

American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Travel Award, 2023

Invited Participant PRIMeD at Fred Hut Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, 2023

Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) Travel Award, 2023

Dissertation Completion Fellowship, WMU Graduate College, 2023-24

Best Poster Award, WMU Research and Creative Activities Poster/Performance Day, 2023

WMU All-University Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Award, 2023

Best Graduate Oral Presentation - 2nd Place, WMed 41st Annual Research Day, 2023

WMU Graduate College Graduate Student Travel Award, 2023 (Spring)

WMU BIOS Graduate Research and Creative Scholar (Ph.D.) Award, 2023

Invited Participant St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital National Graduate Student Symposium (NGSS), 2023

International Society of Eye Research (ISER) Early Career Research Travel Award, 2023

Tuition Award, CSHL Advanced Sequencing Technologies/Bioinformatics Course, 2022

WMU Graduate College Graduate Student Travel Award, 2022 (Fall)

WMU Graduate College Graduate Student Research Grant 2022 (Spring)

Margaret T. Du Mond Endowed Scholarship, 2021

Tuition Award, MBL Frontiers in Stem Cells and Regeneration Course, 2021

2018-23 Luke Kinsey, Ph.D.
Distinguished Graduate Student in Biological Sciences, 2023

Best Graduate Oral Presentation – 1st Place, WMed 41st Annual Research Day, 2023

WMU Graduate College Student Travel Award, 2022

WMU All University Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Award (Ph.D.), 2022

WMU BIOS Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Award (Ph.D.) Award 2021

Society for Developmental Biology Travel Award, 2019

2018-23 Allison Witucki, Ph.D. (Mallinson Institute for Science Education)
WMU MISE Graduate Research and Creative Scholar (Ph.D.) Award, 2023

WMU MISE All University Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Award, 2018
WMU MISE Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Award (Ph.D. - Teaching), 2017

2016-21 Alanna Van Huizen, Ph.D.
   National American Dissertation Fellowship from American Association of University Women (AAUW), 2020-21
Society for Developmental Biology Travel Award, 2019
2nd Place, Best Poster Competition, BioEM 2019 Conference
BioEM 2019 Graduate Student Travel Award
  WMU Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Award (Ph.D. - Research), 2019
Best Poster Award, WMU Research and Creative Activities Poster and Performance Day, 2109
  Distinguished Graduate Student in Biological Sciences, 2018
Society for Developmental Biology Travel Award, 2017

2014-8 Taylor Birkholz, Ph.D.
WMU Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Award (Ph.D. - Teaching), 2018
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Travel Award, 2018
WMU Graduate College Graduate Student Travel Award, 2018
Society for Developmental Biology Travel Award, 2017
Distinguished Graduate Student in Biological Sciences, 2017
Best Poster Award, WMU Poster Day, 2016
Midwest Society for Developmental Biology Travel Award, 2014

2013-6 Michelle Deochand, M.S.
Midwest Society for Developmental Biology Travel Award, 2014
University Fellowship Award (Doctoral Assistantship), 2013-5

Beane Lab Undergraduate Students

2022-24 Caitlin Nolff, Member Lee Honors College

Frank Hinds Zoology Award, 2023
Research Funding:
WMU OVPRI Undergraduate Research Excellence Award Spring 2023

2022-23 Zachary McClenny, Member Lee Honors College

WMU Distinguished Senior in Biomedical Sciences Award, 2023

2021-23 Isabela Giorgetti de Carvalho
Research Funding:

WMU CAS Undergraduate Research and Creative Award Spring, 2023

2021-23 Saad Qureshi, (summers at WMU), University of Michigan

Undergraduate Honorable Mention Poster Award, 81st Annual SDB Meeting, 2023

2019-20 Jacqueline Greene, Member Lee Honors College

Research Funding:

WMU OVPR Undergraduate Research Excellence Award Spring 2020

2019-20 Nik Nur Sabrina Binti Nik Azli