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March 2006
Joshua Stuart (BS 1996) has been selected a
2006 Kalpana Chawla Outstanding Recent Graduate Award winner.
This award recognizes University of Colorado Boulder alumni who have made
exceptional contributions to their field within ten years of leaving CU. The
award recognizes outstanding career achievement as well as significant
contributions to the community and/or the University. The award will be
presented at the 76th Annual Awards Ceremony to be held on May 10, 2006.
Some excerpts from Professor Elizabeth Bradley's nomination
letter:
Josh is a truly rare talent: someone trained and skilled in two fields, who
gets both the subtleties and the big picture. He not only has a nose
for good research problems and the drive to carry them out, but also the
ability to infect others with his enthusiasm about them. Simply put, he is a
star. He has already done us proud, and he will do much, much more as his
career blossoms.
Josh is not only brilliant and insightful, but also hardworking. He has more
pure creativity than any other student I've encountered in my thirteen years at
CU, as well as the training and intellectual firepower to follow up on it. This
has already led to "breakthrough" results and publications in the very best
venues. It has been a real joy to watch him fulfill the promise that was so
obvious from his undergraduate days.
Stuart is currently an Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at the
University of California, Santa Cruz, where he heads the
Computational Functional Genomics Lab.
His research interests are in computational approaches for predicting how genes
function and discovering how their functions are regulated and modulated to
produce orchestrated cellular responses. He is particularly interested in
approaches that combine genome-wide functional data across multiple organisms
to identify conserved mechanisms of gene activity and to understand how genetic
networks evolve. Stuart holds a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Molecular,
Cellular and Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado Boulder
and a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University.
More on the award can be found in
Computer Science Alumnus Wins Outstanding Recent Graduate Award.
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