Jonathan Garst Orozco has been named winner of the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences Spector Award.
Each year, the biology department awards the prize in memory of Marion Smith Spector, a 1938 graduate of the University who studied zoology under the late Viktor Hamburger, Ph.D., professor of biology.
Hamburger was a prominent developmental biologist who made many important contributions while he was on the faculty.
Orozco, a senior, worked in the lab of Lawrence Salkoff, Ph.D., professor of anatomy and neurobiology and of genetics at the School of Medicine.
His thesis was titled “Cumulative Activation of a Voltage-dependent Potassium Channel.” Orozco plans to enter the doctoral program in neurobiology at Harvard University in the fall.
As part of the departmental recognition of his outstanding work, Orozco will present a research talk at a special biology department seminar at 4 p.m. April 30 in Room 332 of Rebstock Hall, followed by a reception in Room 309.
Friends, colleagues, co-workers, biology faculty and other researchers are invited to attend.
The Spector prize was first awarded in 1974 to recognize academic excellence and outstanding undergraduate achievement in research.
Students are nominated by their research mentors for making substantial contributions to the field.
For more information, call 935-6881.