Dr. Ted Abel, Associate Professor of Biology, is this year's recipient of the prestigious Dean's Award for Mentorship of Undergraduate Research.
 The Department of Biology is delighted to announce that Dr. Ted Abel, Associate Professor of Biology, is this year's recipient of the prestigious Dean's Award for Mentorship of Undergraduate Research. Professor Abel's research focuses on molecular basis of synaptic plasticity, learning and memory, and sleep/wake regulation. Most recently, he was appointed as the Director of the highly popular Biological Basis of Behavior program. Since his arrival at Penn in 1998, Professor Abel has been actively engaged in providing undergraduates the opportunity to conduct independent research employing state-of-the-art approaches to study the relationship between genes and behavior using the mouse as a model system. Fifteen Penn undergraduates, coming from Biology, Biological Basis of Behavior, and Chemistry, have conducted research under his mentorship, three receiving Nassau Fund Awards and two receiving Undergraduate Research Grants. In addition, Professor Abel has hosted twelve work-study students, and has sponsored summer research internships for six students from outside the University. Research conducted by undergraduates in his lab contributed to six peer-reviewed research papers on which they were co-authors. A former student noted that she ascribes her success in her first year of study in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program at Harvard Medical School to Professor Abel's mentorship.
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