Jennifer Ross
Jennifer Ross
Education and Career:
Professor Jennifer Ross received her bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from Wellesley College in 2000. She went on to graduate school at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she worked on the biophysics of microtubules.
After completing her doctoral work in 2004, Dr. Ross joined the labs of Yale Goldman and Erika Holzbaur at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine to pioneer single molecule work on the motor protein cytoplasmic dynein. She started her laboratory at the University of Massachusetts in 2007. In 2013, she received tenure and the rank of Associate Professor.
Honors and Awards:
Scialog Fellow, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, 2014
NSF INSPIRE Award, National Science Foundation, 2013
Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award, Biophysical Society, 2013
Cottrell Scholars Award, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, 2011
Basil O’Connor Starter Award, March of Dimes Foundation, 2009
Armstrong Fund for Science Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health, 2005
USCB Affiliates Barbara S. Uehling Graduate Dissertation Fellowship (declined), 2004
Ferrando-Fithian Award for Outstanding Woman in Physics, UCSB, 2001
Graduate Assistance in the Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship, UCSB, 2000
Phyllis Flemming Physics Prize for Outstanding Physics Major, Wellesley College, 2000
Jerome A. Schiff Fellowship for Thesis Work, Wellesley College 1999
Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium Thesis Fellowship, 1999
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