Please join me in congratulating DeLauren McCauley (chemistry) for winning for the oral talk that she presented at the Promise Research Symposium on February 28, 2014 held at the University of Maryland, College Park.   DeLauren delivered a TED-style talk at the symposium.  We also would like to congratulate Bre-Onna DeLaine for winning in her area of research in Molecular Medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore Graduate Research Conference that was held on March 24, 2014.  Lastly, we would like to congratulate our most recent winner, first year graduate student Kayla Lemons (biological sciences) for her poster presented at the UMBC Graduate Research Conference on March 26, 2014!