News

 

Assistant Professor Kan Cao (Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics)—has won an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging Award totaling $400,000 over four years. It is considered the most important career award in the field of aging. Read more

 

Norma Allewell has been named a Jefferson Science Fellow, and will be spending the next year working as a science advisor at the State Department. More information on this program from the National Academies can be found at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/Jefferson/index.htm.

 

Apoorv Gupta, a junior double major in Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was awarded a 2011-2012 Goldwater Scholarship, the premier national award granted to undergraduate students majoring in mathematics, natural sciences and engineering who are interested in research careers.

An article in California Watch quotes Distinguished University Professor Rita Colwell on the possible risk of cholera being reintroduced to North America, if water treatment plants were overwhelmed by severe weather patterns brought on by climate change. Read the article.

Spencer Benson, associate professor of cell biology and molecular genetics, was awarded the 2011 Carski Foundation Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). The award honors an educator for outstanding teaching of microbiology to undergraduate students and for encouraging them to subsequent achievement. Benson will deliver the Carski Award lecture at the 2011 ASM General Conference, being held in New Orleans, LA, May 21-24.