Sarah and Megan were awarded a Rackham PACE Fellowship for Graduate Student-Faculty Mentor Pairs.

The PACE Fellowship recognizes accomplished doctoral students and faculty mentors who have demonstrated commitment to program climate and student success. Students and faculty are nominated together by their department representatives. Graduate students are selected based on their scholarly accomplishments and efforts to increase student climate, success, and community building within their field. Faculty mentors are selected based on their efforts to increase student success and climate within their department.

Congratulations to Cade for being awarded a spot on the UM NIH Chemistry Biology Interface Training Program!

Very happy to announce that David Beier (Biological Chemistry) was awarded an NSF GRFP!

Congratulations are also in order for Aldrex Munsayac (Chemistry) who received an honorable mention, and former undergraduate Kyrillos Abdallah (now at Yale for PhD studies in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry) who was selected as an awardee!

Congratulations to 2nd year PBC student, Tommy Millunchick, on passing his candidacy exam!

Sarah has been selected as a Cottrell Scholar!

Quoting the Research Corp president: “These exceptional teacher-scholars are chosen not just for their research and educational programs but for their potential to become academic leaders at their institutions and beyond” .

You can read more about it here:https://rescorp.org/news/2022/02/rcsa-welcomes-2022-class-of-cottrell-scholars

Sarah was recognized by the Indiana University college and Arts and Sciences as an outstanding young alumni!

https://magazine.college.indiana.edu/issues/fall-2021/articles/20-under-40.html

Aldrex was selected as a trainee for the Chemistry Biology Interface Training Program! Congratulations to Aldrex and all of the trainees!

Congratulations to 2nd year students Aldrex Munsayac and David Beier! Both Aldrex and David were awarded Rackham Graduate Student Research Grants to support their work!

Congratulations are in order! David Beier passed his prelim last week! Way to go David!

Congratulations to Sicong Ma for passing his checkpoint 2 exam!