Congratulations to Valerie Coffman from the Wu Lab

• Awarded the OSU Elizabeth Clay Howard Presidential Fellowship – 2012 (announced today)
• First author key paper just published in J. Cell Biol.; highlighted by the journal editors with an "In Focus" article – "Setting a new standard for kinetochores" (http://jcb.rupress.org/cgi/content/full/195/4/539?etoc)
• Received an American Society for Cell Biology Predoctoral Travel Award to attend the annual ASCB meeting to be held in Denver (12/11)