People, papers and presentations

David Medina won third place in the PR publication category at the Houston Press Club’s 2017 Lone Star Awards for the fall 2016 issue of Rice at Large, the quarterly newsletter about Rice’s community outreach and engagement programs. Medina is director of multicultural community relations in the Office of Public Affairs.

Danielle Wu, postdoctoral research fellow in biosciences, was awarded first place in the American Association for Dental Research’s 2017 IADR Unilever Hatton Competition. Wu’s postdoctoral work, “β1 Integrin-mediated Coordinated Motility in Reorganizing Salivary Human Stem/Progenitor Microstructures,” was conducted under the supervision of Cindy Farach-Carson, an adjunct professor in biosciences, and co-mentored by Daniel Harrington, faculty fellow in biochemistry and cell biology.