Congratulations to all students who presented their research at the 87^th annual meeting of the Pacific Division. The presentations were of consistantly high quality and a pleasure to listen to or view.

Special congratulations go to those students who won Awards of Excellence. Their names and awards are listed below.

DIVISION-WIDE AWARDS

BEST POSTER AWARD
Brett R. Goldsmith (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA) "Effects of Controlled Oxidation and Reduction of Carbon Nanotubes."

PRESIDENTS' AWARD
Kristopher Naowamondhol (Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA) "Independent Component Analysis of Mismatched Negativity."

LAURENCE M. KLAUBER AWARD
Alexander A. Kane (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA) "High Temperature Conductivity and Reactivity of Carbon Nanotube Electronic Circuits."

AAAS – ROBERT I. LARUS AWARD
Kyle Brucker (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA) "Simulations of a Stratified Shear Layer."

SECTIONAL AWARDS

ATMOSPHERIC and OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCES, and ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES SECTIONS
First Place: Kyle Brucker (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA) "Simulations of a Stratified Shear Layer."

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES SECTION
First Place: Amy M. Evans (Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, CA) "Characterization of a Blood Meal Responsive Amino Acid Transporter in the Disease Vector."

Second Place: Jennifer Juhn (University of California, Irvine, CA) "Development of Gene Drive Systems in Mosquitoes."

Third Place: Keri Maher (Department of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, CA) "The Phylogenetics of Panamanian Aechmea (Bromeliaceae): A Recent Adaptive Radiation?"

CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS SECTIONS
First Place: Alexander A. Kane (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA) "High Temperature Conductivity and Reactivity of Carbon Nanotube Electronic Circuits."

Second Place: Brett R. Goldsmith (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA) "Effects of Controlled Oxidation and Reduction of Carbon Nanotubes."

GENERAL and INTERDISCIPLINARY SECTION
First Place: Jatila van der Veen-Davis (Gervitz Graduate School of Education and Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA) "Physicists and Firewalkers: The Co-construction of Community Identity through Narratives in Ritual Performances."

HEALTH SCIENCES SECTION
First Place: Uyi E. Osaseri (UCLA/Charles R. Drew University College of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA) "A Study of Dietary Intake of Lutein/Zeaxanthin Among Modern Americans."

PSYCHOLOGY SECTION
First Place: Kristopher Naowamondhol (Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA) "Independent Component Analysis of Mismatched Negativity."