Chris Heier, a graduate student in the laboratory of Christine DiDonato, PhD, Human Molecular Genetics Program, has won the Presidential Fellowship for 2008-10 from Northwestern. This highly competitive award is the most prestigious fellowship awarded by Northwestern, to candidates who combine outstanding intellectual or creative ability with the capacity to play an active part in the life of the Society of Fellows. Recipients of the Presidential Fellowship become part of Northwestern’s Society of Fellows. The Society meets twice per quarter and enables stellar students from across the university to have interdisciplinary interactions with their peers in other fields. The goal is to create future leaders who are enthusiastic and literate about the broad scholarship of the university.