1996 Student Awards

The MWASPP awarded two graduate and one undergraduate awards for outstanding oral presentations at the 1996 annual meeting. The awards are of equal status; the judges have enough difficulty selecting the two best in the graduate and undergraduate categories without attempting to determine further ranking.

All awards include membership in the national ASPP. Graduate award winners also select between a subscription to Plant Physiology and Plant Cell with a $50 cash award OR $120 Travel grant to the national ASPP meeting with a $50 cash award. Undergraduate students select between a $100 Research Support grant with a $50 cash award OR $100 Travel grant to the national ASPP meeting with a $50 cash award.

All students who present at the annual meeting receive a subsidy from the MWASPP to help defray the student's expenses for travel and housing at the meeting. Typically, up to $50 is rebated to the students who present at the meeting.

Graduate Student Awards

Lishan Chen, University of Illinois -Urbana

Molecular analysis of plant amino acid transporters. Lishan Chen and Daniel R. Bush, Department of Plant Biology and USDA/ARS, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801.

Wendy J. Crookes, University of Michigan

The role of Hsp70 in higher plant peroxisome biogenesis. Wendy J. Crookes and Laura J. Olsen, Department of Biology, University of Michigan, 830 N. Univeristy, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048.

Undergraduate Student Award

Paul A.S. Benson, Knox College

Messenger RNA stability in heat-stressed barley aleuron layers. Paul A.S. Benson and Mark Brodl, Department of Biology, Knox College, Galesburg, IL 61401.