Congratulations to Nick Mortimore, who was recently awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! This prestigious award is designed to help ensure the quality, vitality, and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States.

Dr. Lisa Elfring, Vice Provost for Instruction and Assessment in the University Center for Assessment, Teaching, and Technology (UCATT), Specialist in Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Associate Professor at the BIO5 Institute, has been selected for the University of Arizona Koffler Prize.

Emily Waggoner, a Ph.D. candidate in The Duhamel Lab, is one of 100 doctoral students in the U. S. and Canada selected to receive a $25,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She was sponsored by Chapter BB of Tucson, Arizona.

The College of Science is celebrating Black History Month by featuring some of the College’s outstanding faculty and students. First is Dr. Corin V. Gray, an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Co-authored by George Sutphin: On the benefits of the tryptophan metabolite 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid in Caenorhabditis elegans and mouse aging published in Nature Communications

This fall, each department in the University of Arizona's College of Science nominated an outstanding senior who went above and beyond during their time as a Wildcat. The MCB Department is pleased to share our outstanding senior Ms. Sofia Ragonese's story as she reflects on her time at UArizona and her amazing experience at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology!

This award is given by the College of Science to recognize one advisor who demonstrates outstanding, extensive, and continuous involvement in undergraduate advising.

Researchers at the University of Arizona and Penn State University are looking to the sea for inspiration on how to capture methane and convert it into energy or valuable chemicals.

Every year, the College of Science recognizes outstanding faculty and advisors for their noteworthy participation in representing and contributing to the teaching and advising mission of the University of Arizona. This year, Ted Weinert, Professor in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department, has been awarded the UA College of Science Distinguished Career Teaching Award.

Dr. Riedel-Kruse with Honesty Kim (former UA postdoctoral fellow) and colleagues published a paper in Nature that explores how natural tiling patterns, such as on a fly’s wing, can be formed through mechanical interactions.