Niyongabo, who is from Burundi, a country in East Africa, highlights one of the country's many cultural heritage: Ingoma z’i Burundi or the Royal Drummers of Burundi.

Joldersma grew up in Hillsdale, Michigan and worked as a teenager in the cornfields for seed company DeKalb manually extracting the tassle from the top of the stalk. He says the first two or three hundred are pretty easy, but after that, lifting your hands above your head for a couple more hours gets pretty hard. 

Liu came to the U.S. in 1983 from the then little-known city Wuhan, China. She has taken some of her Ph.D. students and postdoc fellows to Wuhan to visit since then.

Moctezuma, who lived in Los Angeles and Cuernavaca, Mexico, as a child, has a passion for plants as well as art. 

Alum Iowis Zhu now has patents pending for his work designing immunotherapy ‘toolkits’ that may help patients fight cancer.

The award honors faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in both teaching and research.

The research could allow agriculturists to optimize productivity and explore the viability of ‘virgin fruits’.

More than 1,600 students graduated from our college in May 2022.

McIver has served as interim department chair since March 2021.

Congratulations to our Spring 2022 CBMG award winners who received: Undergraduate Student Awards, Initiates for the Sigma Alpha Omicron (SAO) Microbiology Honor Society, Graduate Student Awards, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awards.