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BBMB faculty and graduate students gathered for a picnic during fall orientation to welcome new graduate students to the biochemistry and biophysics graduate programs.

Xinyu Fu was selected by the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) as a 2017 ASPB Conviron Scholar. Xinyu was one of only 21 students selected for the inaugural 2017 program.

Two awards created at Iowa State University, with support from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, have been presented to two members of the Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology (BBMB).

Iowa State University (ISU) has been named a National Science Foundation Innovation-Corps site (NSF I-Corps).

Tesia Posekany (left), graduate student in the Nick Lauter Lab/Plant Pathology and Microbiology, and Marit Nilsen-Hamilton (right), professor of Biochemistry, Biophyics and Molecular Biology, were presented the Richard B.

Dr. Kristen Johansen has been appointed interim chair of the Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, effective February 15, 2016. Dr. Johansen will take over the duties of Dr.

Ayesha Riaz has been named the recipient of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.

Each year the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences celebrates the outstanding accomplishments of its faculty and staff as exemplified in awards received from both the university and the college.

Faculty and staff recipients of the university’s most distinguished awards were honored on Monday, September 26, in the Memorial Union Great Hall.

The BBMB Scholarship Committee is very proud to announce that Lauran Chambers, Alex Donelson and Andrew Tonsager are the Stupka Scholars for 2017-2018.

Associate VP for Research and professor in the Roy J.

Ryan Andrews and Naazneen Sofeo have each been awarded a $1,000 Print and Grace Powers Hudson Scholarship in Agriculture by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) for the 2017-18 academic year.

Sannie Olson, a fifth year biochemistry Ph.D. candidate, was awarded a Brown Graduate Fellowship of $10,000 for 2017-18.

Rob Stupka continues to inspire those who study in the Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology (BBMB). Follow the journey of students becoming scientists by way of the Stupka Symposium.