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2017 UConn-AAUP Excellence Award for Teaching Innovation goes to Arlene Albert! Congratulations, Dr. Albert!
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Congratulations to Sarah McAnulty (Ph.D. student in the Nyholm Lab)!
Sarah received the “Best Short Talk” award at the 2017 Pioneer Valley Microbiology Symposium AND was runner up for “Best Student Talk” for the Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the 2017 annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology!
Congratulations to Colleen Spurling, who received a Kappa Alpha Theta “Outstanding Faculty Award”.
This award recognizes Dr. Spurling’s passion to inspire students and actions that connect to Theta aspirations: intellectual curiosity, leadership potential, commitment to service, and personal excellence.
Jonathan Klassen has been awarded a $1.1 million grant from the NSF. Project Titled “Mapping interactions mediated by secondary metabolites in a fungus-growing ant microbiome.”
In collaboration with Marcy Balunas, UConn School of Pharmacy and Pieter Dorrestein, UC San Diego Institute of Engineering in Medicine.
Dr. Benson named AAAS Fellow
Four UConn professors, including three from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and one from UConn Health, were named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this week.
Prof. Eric May and Postdoc Shivangi Nangia will investigate Virus Infection Mechanisms on World’s Fastest Supercomputer for Biomolecular Simulations.
Drs. May and Nangia have received an allocation on the Anton2 supercomputer donated to the Pittsburg Supercomputing Center by D.E. Shaw Research. The allocation was granted based upon a competitive application process which involved peer review by a panel convened by the National Research Council. The allocation will allow them to analyze viral protein-membrane interactions […]
Congratulations to Stephen Hessler and Tyler Daman, recipients of the Beckman Coulter award.
This award enabled Stephen and Tyler to attend the prestigious Advanced Analytical Ultracentrifugation Workshop and Symposium in Danbury, CT. The Advanced AUC workshop is a leading scientific event for promoting training, collaboration, and innovation in the field of protein interaction science and technology.