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Overview
Named to honor the memory of Victoria Finnerty, this award helps support costs for undergraduates presenting their Drosophila research at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference.
Finnerty was a long-time member of the Genetics Society of America and served the Drosophila community and the genetics community at large in many capacities. Her ground-breaking work as a graduate student used high-resolution recombination analysis to dissect gene structure. This set the stage for a 35-year career in which she excelled as a gifted teacher as well as a research scientist.
Finnerty was known for her creativity and dedication to training undergraduates in Drosophila genetics; her passion for the field of genetics was contagious. Vickie was a wise, compassionate mentor and teacher for whom interactions with her students was a constant joy. She constantly sought new ways to engage undergraduates in their genetics courses and in research; the Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Award continues her stellar example.
Application Process
Apply via the button at the top of this page. You will need to sign in using your GSA member account details to access the form. In your application, you will request a letter of recommendation from the principal investigator of the laboratory in which you are conducting research or another professor or supervisor familiar with your research. Your reference will receive an email with an upload link and must upload your letter of recommendation by December 16, 2021. Please alert them in advance of submitting your application that they will need to upload their letter of recommendation.
Eligibility
Applicants must be current GSA members who are undergraduate students. Recipients may only use the award to fund their travel or registration to present Drosophila research at the Annual Drosophila Research Conference or The Allied Genetics Conference.
Important Dates
The application deadline is December 16, 2021.
Letters of Recommendation are due December 16, 2021.
Support Undergraduate Drosophila Research
The Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Awards are made possible by generous contributions from our donors. Please consider contributing to support our community’s early career members.
Recipients
| Year | Name | Institution |
| 2022 | Saron Akula | UC, Berkeley |
| 2022 | Paulo Belato | University of Connecticut |
| 2022 | Megan Butler | University of NC, Chapel Hill |
| 2022 | Colin Louis | Grand Valley State University |
| 2022 | Gonzalo Morales Chaya | University of New Mexico |
| 2022 | Sherif Negm | University of Rochester |
| 2022 | Alani Perkin | HSSU |
| 2022 | Manisha Persaud | Rutgers University, New Brunswick |
| 2022 | Christopher Petit | Loyola University, Chicago |
| 2022 | Heidi Pipkin | Bemidji State University |
| 2022 | Caroline Pitton | Wesleyan University |
| 2022 | Caroline Pritchard | Lehigh University |
| 2022 | Shanzeh Sayied | Brown University |
| 2022 | Joanatta Shapiro | Rutgers University |
| 2022 | Sequioa Smith | Sam Houston State University |
| 2021 | Dabin Cho | Emory University |
| 2021 | Nina Benites | Tufts University |
| 2021 | Vikas Rana | Brown University |
| 2021 | Katrina Haas | UC Santa Cruz |
| 2021 | Shaynie Segal | University of Colorado Boulder |
| 2021 | Corinne Croslyn | University of Evansville |
| 2021 | Amy Kwan | Washington University in St. Louis |
| 2021 | Ben Hinz | University of Iowa |
| 2021 | L. Amanda Xu | University of Michigan |
| 2021 | Alexis Perry | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| 2020 | Brooke Allen | University of Detroit Mercy |
| 2020 | Corinne Croslyn | University of Evansville |
| 2020 | Dalia Fainberg | Baruch College (CUNY) |
| 2020 | Nate Fischer | Marquette University |
| 2020 | Nicole Folan | College of the Holy Cross |
| 2020 | Jillian Gomez | University of Tampa |
| 2020 | Isabella Hanesworth | Mercy College |
| 2020 | Jordyn Moaton | University of Missouri – Columbia |
| 2020 | Anthony Ruiz | Bemidji State University |
| 2020 | Joshua Sikder | University of North Carolina – Charlotte |
| 2020 | Efren Silva | University of Houston |
| 2020 | Marta Stetsiv | Kansas State University |
| 2020 | Anastasia Welch | Rhode Island College |
| 2020 | Joey Wong | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 2019 | Katherine Fisher | Indiana University Bloomington |
| 2019 | Esther Kwon | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 2019 | Kathy Le | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| 2019 | Carolyn McGrail | Baruch College (CUNY) |
| 2019 | Caroline Miller | Davidson College |
| 2019 | Taylar Mouton | University of Rochester |
| 2019 | Amanda Petersen | University of St. Thomas |
| 2019 | Caroline Phan | Davidson College |
| 2019 | Nicco Ruggiero | State University of New York at Buffalo |
| 2019 | Francesco Satriale | Bucknell University |
| 2019 | Helen Stone | University of Virginia |
| 2019 | Rebecca Tarnopol | University of Michigan |
| 2019 | Brandon Turner | University of North Carolina – Charlotte |
| 2019 | Isaac Wong | University of Rochester |
| 2017 | James Cevallos | UCLA |
| 2017 | Liesl Strand | Univ of Washington |
| 2017 | Madison Hupp | Kennsaw State |
| 2017 | Courtney Willet | Kennsaw State |
| 2017 | Ryan Salemme | John Carroll Univ |
| 2017 | Jenna Harris | Georgia State |
| 2017 | Matthew Riccetti | Univ of Dayton |
| 2016 | Andrew Blake | Delaware State University |
| 2016 | Taylor Hinnant | East Carolina University |
| 2016 | Diana Luong | Loyola University Chicago |
| 2016 | Katherine Nichols | Muhlenberg College |
| 2016 | Abigail O’Conner | University of Arizona |
| 2016 | Nilang Shah | Emory University |
| 2016 | Jarrod Shilts | Vanderbilt University |
| 2016 | Samantha St. Clair | Indiana University |
| 2015 | Jonathan Cohen | Swarthmore College |
| 2015 | Alexander Kneubehl | Ohio Northern University |
| 2015 | Kiu Ming April Kong | York University |
| 2015 | Meera Namireddy | Rice University |
| 2015 | Irina Pushel | Michigan State University |
| 2015 | Anna Zeidman | Brown University |
| 2014 | Daniel A. Friedman | University of California, Davis |
| 2014 | Nancy J. Levansailor | SUNY Fredonia |
| 2014 | Katharine Majeski | Kennesaw State University |
| 2014 | Aidan L. McParland | University of New England |
| 2014 | Marvin Nayan | University of Washington |
| 2014 | Trung T. Phan | University of Washington |
| 2014 | AnnJosette Ramirez | Arcadia University |
| 2014 | Zachary L. Sebo | University of Missouri, Kansas City |
| 2014 | Letitia Thompson | The College of New Jersey |
| 2014 | Daniel M. Wong | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2014 | Chenling Xu | University of California, Davis |
| 2013 | Susanna E. Brantley | Emory University |
| 2013 | Gina D. Castelvecchi | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 2013 | Robert W. Fernandez | York College, City University of New York |
| 2013 | Michelle A. Frazer | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 2013 | Samuel Hutton Friedman | Vanderbilt University |
| 2013 | Robert A. Gingras | Hofstra University |
| 2013 | Gary Iacobucci | State University of New York at Buffalo |
| 2013 | Jihyun Irizarry | California State University, Los Angeles |
| 2013 | Sierra Mosticone-Wangansteen | Randolph-Macon College |
| 2012 | Selma Avdagic | Saint Louis University School of Medicine |
| 2012 | Samantha Galindo | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 2012 | Kenneth B. Hoehn | Duke University |
| 2012 | Emily Hsieh | University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center |
| 2012 | Megan Phifer-Rixey | University of Arizona |
| 2012 | Jacqueline McDermott | Hofstra University |
| 2012 | Mohammad Siddiq | Indiana University |