2005-2006 AFW Awards for
Outstanding Women in Graduate Studies

The Association for Faculty Women announces its 2005-2006 award winners for outstanding women in graduate studies. These awards recognize superlative academic and scholarly accomplishments, as well as professional potential of women graduate students at WSU completing their degrees in the 2005-2006 academic year (graduation dates: December 2005, May 2006, August 2006). The AFW Harriett B. Rigas Award is presented to a doctoral student. The AFW Founders Award is presented to a master's level student.

Award	Recipient	Advisor	Department	Research
Harriett B. Rigas Award (Ph.D.) - First Place	Candice Lynn Willmon	Margaret Black	Pharmacy	Optimizing a target gene (deoxycytidine kinase) critical for DNA synthesis for potential use for suicide gene therapy of cancer
Harriett B. Rigas Award (Ph.D.) - Second Place	Tetyana A. Lysak (w/ Advisor Edward Weber & Nominator Nicholas Lovrich)	Edward Weber	Political Science	Water management and watershed management through collaborative policymaking in the State of Washington
Harriett B. Rigas Award (Ph.D.) - Honorable Mention	Rosara Payne	Sue Clark	Chemistry	Separating various isotopes of Americanium, Plutonium and Cesium
AFW Founders Award (Masters) - First Place	Krittika Kanjilal (w/ AFW President Jean Johnson)	Doerte Blume	Physics	Interaction between two atoms in one, two and three dimensions
AFW Founders Award (Masters) - Second Place	Celestina Barbosa-Leiker	Jeff Joireman	Psychology	Measuring cooperation between employees
AFW Founders Award (Masters) - Second Place (tie)	Tabitha T. Brown	Richard Koenig	Crops and Soil Sciences	Investigating the fate of nitrogen in direct-seed cropping systems in the Pacific Northwest

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