Ashraf lab's number #1 priority is mentees' success. Here is a list of current and previous mentees; and their list of accomplishments.
"I will make you a better scientist. You will not know How and Why, and even When!"
- Arif Ashraf
Here is Arif's blog post on mentoring
"I will make you a better scientist. You will not know How and Why, and even When!"
- Arif Ashraf
Here is Arif's blog post on mentoring
- Travel award to attend ASPB western section - Bay Area Hub conference in Berkley. (Julia Zheku)
- Linda Matsuuchi award. Only grad student within the entire Faculty of Science from UBC received this award (Olivia Hazelwood)
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) by American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) (Scottie Mello)
- UBC Work Learn International Undergraduate Research fund (2026) (Scottie Mello)
- 4 Years UBC Doctoral fellowship (Olivia Hazelwood)
- Hugo E Meilicke Memorial Fellowship (Olivia Hazelwood)
- Fraces Chave Memorial Graduate Scholarship (Olivia Hazelwood)
- UBC Work Learn International Undergraduate Research fund (2026) (Joh Demura-Devore)
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) by American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) (Thea Do)
- Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA) by NSERC (Thea Do)
- Graduate student travel and research dissemination fund of UBC (Olivia Hazelwood)
- Awarded travel support to attend Canadian Society of Developmental Biology conference (2025) and presented poster (Thea Do)
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) by American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) (Grace Delpit)
- Selected as Honors student, Biology department, Howard University. Only 11 students were awarded out of ~250 students of the cohort. (Grace Delpit)
- NSF travel award to attend the Plant Cell Dynamics meeting at the University of Wisconsin Madison and gave oral presentation (Olivia Hazelwood)
- Mini-semester fellowship (2025) from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to work at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) (Grace Delpit)
- Mini-semester fellowship (2024) from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to work at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). (Shayyaine Dallas)
- Undergraduate summer fellowship (2024) from U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) (Calisa Myrie)
- Undergraduate summer fellowship (2024) at Cornell University (Calisa Myrie)
- Undergraduate summer fellowship (2024) Michigan State University (Calisa Myrie)
- Summer intern at Charles Davis’s lab, Harvard University (2024) (Erika Norris)
- UMass scholar CAFE scholar (Summer 2023) (Erika Norris)
- UMass Dean’s Honors (2021–2023) (Erika Norris)
- Theresa Biuso Maravelas Scholarship (2023) (Erika Norris)
- UMass Chancellor’s Award (2021) (Erika Norris)