The Snoeyenbos Award for Excellence in Graduate Research was established in 1994 in honor of Professor Glenn Snoeyenbos who had been a member of the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences. The Snoeyenbos Award is awarded annually to honor a current outstanding graduate student based upon the student's grade point average, research progress, presentations at meetings and faculty recommendations.
Agnes earned her B.A. in Biochemistry from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. She was a lab technician at the Genomics and Sequencing Core at the University of Cincinnati before coming to UMass. Her current research work in the Mager lab focuses on characterizing the early lethal phenotypes of mouse embryos lacking both alleles of embryonic lethal genes towards functional annotation of the genome. The goal of the project is to elucidate gene functions and their involvement with human diseases.
Veterinary and Animal Sciences