Three students in Professor Riyi Shi's laboratory have received awards in the Sigma Xi Graduate Student Research Poster Award competition, and will be honored at a banquet on April 16. Jianming Li earned First Place (engineering science) for his poster "Novel three-dimensional polymeric scaffolds for neural tissue engineering." Hui Ouyang received an Honorable Mention (engineering science) for her poster "Functional deficit of spinal cord white matter after decompression is proportional to the strain and duration of sustained compression during injury." Kristin Hamann earned First Place (life sciences) for her poster "Acrolein Scavengers as Potential Treatment for Spinal Cord Injury." Please join us in congratulating them on these awards.