Alun Lloyd has been named as the College of Sciences’ Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Read all about it HERE. Congratulations! December 14, 2022

The next Darwin Days event will focus primarily on fungi and is scheduled for Saturday, November 12, 2022 (10am – 5pm). We invite you to join us and participate in this public science education event on fungal biology and evolution. November 12, 2022

Congratulations to Ben Callahan, the 2023 American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2023 Data Prize awardee! More about his journey and contributions can be found HERE. October 5, 2022

Amy Grunden and her co-applicants (Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Rosanna Catherine Hennessy, Mette Haubjerg Nicolaisen, Jens Stougaard, Dugald Reid, Paul Schulze-Lefert, and Harro Bouwmeester) were awarded funds to plan and host the Copenhagen Bioscience Conference “Exploring Plant-Microbe Interactions for Enhanced Crop Resilience” which will be held November 13-17th. You are all encouraged to submit an application to attend (September 1, 2022 application deadline). August 13, 2022

William Neal Reynolds Professor Jean Ristaino together with co-applicants Ignazio Carbone, Peter Ojiambo, Chris Jones, Kelly Zering, Laura Tateosian, Qingshan Wei, Ranga Vatsavai, Ross Meetenmeyer and Jason Delborne have been awarded a $1 million Phase I planning grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to use real-time analytics to monitor and predict emerging plant diseases. The announcement can be found HERE. August 10, 2022

Read all about Marcela Rojas-Pierce’s Plants In Space HERE. June 24, 2022

Congratulations to Marc Cubeta and Shuijin Hu for their selection as a 2021 AAAS Fellow! January 27, 2022.