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Congratulations to the following undergraduate award winners in the 2017 Spring Semester:

Michael Ibba, professor and chair, microbiology, was selected for the Arts and Sciences Diversity Enhancement Award. Ibba has been an advocate for diversity for a very long time. He has attended…

Congratulations to the following students for winning travel awards during the 2017 Spring Semester!

By JoAnne Viviano
The Columbus Dispatch

Researchers say they are cautiously optimistic about a small study that showed that fecal transplants improved both gastrointestinal and…

Congratulations to Graduate Student, Ann Gregory, and Post-Doctoral researcher, Cristina Howard, (both from Dr. Sullivan's Lab) for being appointed as Fellows to the NIH/NIAID T32 Training Grant!…

Virginia Rich, assistant professor of microbiology, along with Scott Saleska, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, are co-leading the quest of an…

By: Pam Frost Gorder

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Researchers analyzing the genomes of microorganisms living in shale oil and gas wells have found evidence of sustainable ecosystems taking hold there—…

New Microbiology PhD Students Autumn 2016

Siavash Azari                                       Yunxiao Liu

Matthew Dunn                                     Stephanie Ray

Nien…

Potential drug doubles survival time in mice by interrupting tumor growth, promoting cancer cell death

By: Misti Crane

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A promising new compound appears to impede a…