The Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics (CBMG) celebrated its annual Undergraduate and Graduate awards on May 12, 2023. Congratulations to all the CBMG recipients!
Congratulations to our Spring 2023 CBMG award winners who received Undergraduate Student Awards, Initiates for the Sigma Alpha Omicron (SAO) Microbiology Honor Society, Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards, Graduate Student Awards and DEI Awards.
Program recognizes students for academic, extracurricular and personal accomplishments
Garmani Thein will resume studying two new bacteria species he helped discover last summer.
Diener was a luminary in the field of virology and molecular biology as the discoverer of the first circular RNAs, the plant pathogens known as viroids.
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The award winners will be celebrated on April 21, 2023, at the college's Academic Awards Festival.
The college’s 18 awardees include seven current graduate students, three current undergraduates and eight recent alums.
Markowitz is a BISI BEES graduate student with a joint appointment in the labs of Jay Evans and David Hawthorne. South Philadelphia and the New Jersey Pine Barrens fostered her love for science.
Swarna taught at Carnegie Mellon University and UC San Diego before joining UMD in 2019.
El-Sayed studied in war-torn Lebanon before coming to the United States to pursue a scientific career.