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Dr. Julian Gomez-Cambronero was invited to serve as a member of the Innate Immunity and Inflammation Study Section (National Institutes of Health) for a four-year term beginning in late 2009

Kevin Kelley, M.D./Ph.D., student in Dr. Berberich's lab was awarded the 2010 Academy of Medicine Outstanding Student Research Award.

Madhu Mahankali received the Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program's Graduate Student Excellence Award for the 2009-10 academic year. Madhu is completing her Ph.D. thesis in Dr.

Laura Rigsbee, a master's student in Dr. Paliy's lab, received the biochemistry and molecular biology department's Graduate Student Excellence Award for the 2009-10 academic year.

Dr. David Montgomery from the University of Washington will present the inaugural Wayne Carmichael Lecture in Environmental Sciences on "Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations".

Lecture Information:

May 11, 2010

The Environmental Sciences Ph.D. Program has selected Christina Powell as this year's recipient of the Graduate Student Excellence Award. The School of Graduate Studies will once again present the Graduate Student Excellence Awards and Recognition Program on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 5 p.m.

Dr. Elliott Brown joined the physics department Spring 2010. Brown received his bachelor's degree in physics from UCLA and graduate degrees in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology.

EAF now has a home! The EAF is located in 004/006 Math and Microbiology where you can now find all of our instruments in operational condition. Thanks to Joe and Garrett for taking the time to prepare the facility and for dismantling, moving and re-installing all of our instruments.

Dr. Michael Markey and his wife welcomed a baby boy, Gavin Andrew Markey, on Dec. 17, 2009.

Rick Salisbury received the Best Student Platform presentation award based on his presentation at Proctor and Gamble as part of the Annual Ohio Valley Society of Toxicology meeting.