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2015 AAAS Fellow
Congratulations to Dr. Irina Artsimovitch for being elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Dr. Artsimovitch is an MCDB Faculty member and a…
2015 Presidential Fellow
Congratulations to Dalen Fultz for receiving a Presidential Fellowship in the Fall 2015 competition! The Presidential Fellowship is the highest award given by the Graduate…

Anna Dobritsa Awarded 3-Year $772,000 NSF Grant
Molecular Genetics Assistant Professor Anna Dobritsa’s new, three-year $772,000 NSF grant supports research on processes that are not only interesting to plant biologists, but to materials…

Summer 2015 Graduates
Congratulations to our 2015 Summer Graduates!Doctorates:Daniel Arango Tamayo - Advisor: Andrea DoseffJaideep Banerjee - EOS - Advisor: Chandan SenAnna Belyaevskaya - Advisor: Tina HenkinMaria…
2015 Pelotonia fellows
Congratulations to our 2015 Pelotonia fellows! The winners are:David CiarlarielloDaniel ComiskeyNivedita RatnamKun-Yu TengKatie Thies
David Symer Named as Director
David Symer, Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, was named director of the Nucleic Acid/Microarray Shared Resource at the OSUCCC-James.
From August 28th, 2014 onCampus…

2014 Distinguished University Professor Yasuko Rikihisa
Yasuko Rikihisa
Professor, Department of Veterinary Biosciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
Yasuko Rikihisa is one of the world’s leading authorities on certain tick-borne diseases…

Dawes, Chamberlin receive $1.2M NIH/NSF grant
Helen Chamberlin, professor of molecular genetics, and Adriana Dawes, an assistant professor of mathematics and molecular genetics, have received a joint $1.2 million grant from the National…

Chemist Receives Five Year $520,000 NSF CAREER Award
Hannah Shafaat, assistant professor, chemistry and biochemistry, has been granted a five-year, $520,000 NSF CAREER award for her project, “Metalloenzyme mechanisms probed by resonance Raman…