Please join me in congratulating Jessie Barnes and Lori Ziolkowski on being named 2017 Breakthough Stars!  This award goes to outstanding early career faculty.

And also please join me in congratulating Yuan Shen on being named a 2017 Breakthrough Scholar!  This award goes to outstanding graduate students, and is a relatively new category.  Yuan is a student in Ron Benner's lab.

These very competitive awards reflect the exceptional nature of our faculty and graduate students, and the exciting intellectual atmosphere that is generated thereby.  Congratulations to all three!