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Susan Hester, Associate Professor of Practice at MCB, received the University of Arizona Foundation Leicester and Kathryn Sherill Teaching Award, when the University of Arizona recently honored 25 exceptional faculty and mentors.

Ever since she received a microscope as a child, Natalie Rawlings has been fascinated by the hidden mechanisms that shape human health and disease. That curiosity led her to the University of Arizona’s MCB program, which is honoring her as the Spring 2026 Outstanding Senior.

2026 Daniel Brower Memorial Scholarship Awardee Jacob Lines studies fruit fly genetics and hopes to go into drug development.

For twin sisters Sally and Nora Shaheen, graduation is the latest milestone they have reached side by side. The fraternal twin sisters, both molecular and cellular biology majors, will graduate and cross the graduation stage together, as they prepare for their next chapter: applying to medical school.

Carmen Sánchez Moreno, winner of the spring 2026 MCB Excellence in Research Award, arrived at the University of Arizona as a freshman in August 2022. By October, she was already working in a research lab. Today, she's conducting groundbreaking research on how cells organize to form bird beaks.

Ten MCB students receive Galileo Scholarships in spring 2026: Nandini Manepalli, Isaiah Toth, Jasmine Meredith, Bella Lee, Adriana Gómez-Buckley, Hannah Majors, Erika Haws, Carmen Sanchez Moreno, Bhuvi Mamtani, and Ruiheng (Raymond) Hon.

Alexis Garbarczyk, Ryan Hecksel, and Chance Parkinson received Graduate Student Awards in the MCB Department. They are now in the running for the College of Science Awards.

Among the honorees is George Sutphin, an associate professor in the U of A College of Science and a member of the Cancer Biology research program at the U of A Cancer Center.

Short profile on CBC preceptor and MCB student Kaia Mount.

A protein complex inside every living cell that tells it how to grow. Problems with the protein's signaling system can lead to neurological issues. University of Arizona biologist Andrew Capaldi describes how scientists are examining the inner workings of cells.