“Yan Chen, a graduation student of Chemistry in Dr. Weihong Tan’s research group, has been awarded the 2010 Association for Academic Women (AAW) Emerging Scholar Award and Madelyn Lockhart Dissertation Fellowship Award. Yan is one of only two graduate students to receive this prestigious award from the University of Florida in 2010. The recipients will each receive a $2,000 award from the UF President’s Office to support their final stage of PhD studies. Yan expects to complete her PhD in the Department of Chemistry in the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in August 2010. Identified as one of the best overall graduate students in the department, Yan Chen focuses on instrumentation development and nanomaterial engineering for live cell measurements. She is the first author of five major publications completed while a graduate student. Following graduation, she will continue her research in a post-doctoral position.”