Valerie Horsley, Ph.D., the Maxine F. Singer, Ph.D. ’57 Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. Horsley received the honor for her studies of the extrinsic regulation of epidermal homeostasis. She is one of 20 scientists to receive the award in 2012.