Nominees Announced for Inaugural Postdoc Pack Service &amp; Outstanding Postdoc Mentorship Awards

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May 5, 2021

Nominees Announced for Inaugural Postdoc Pack Service & Outstanding Postdoc Mentorship Awards

The nominees for the NC State Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and Graduate School’s inaugural Postdoc Pack Service and Outstanding Postdoc Mentorship awards have been announced.

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May 3, 2021

Distinguished NCSU Microbiology Alumnus Passes Away, Endowment Established

Dr. Carl Cerniglia, a distinguished NCSU Microbiology Alumnus, passed away in April, but his legacy will live on in an endowment to provide aid for Microbiology students named in his honor.

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Mar 10, 2021

Beloved Dairy Researcher Klaenhammer Dies

Probiotics pioneer Todd R. Klaenhammer, an NC State faculty member for 40 years and the first food scientist to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences, died March 6.

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Oct 20, 2020

Fall Plant and Microbial Biology Newsletter

In lieu of our ice cream social event, we have prepared a fall newsletter to introduce new members of our department and to make note of new grants, papers and other achievements of the last year.

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Oct 16, 2020

Leo W. Parks Lectureship Expands In Spite of COVID-19

The Leo W. Parks Lectureship in Microbiology was expanded this year to include a panel discussion on Diversity in the Sciences, ePoster Sessions, and the keynote Lecture by Dr. Susan Golden of UC, San Diego.Established

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Aug 14, 2020

Kleiner Receives NIH Grant to Study Intestinal Microbiomes

Manuel Kleiner receives prestigious NIH grant to study intestinal microbe interactions.

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Jun 29, 2020

Using Leaf Fungi to Improve Crop Resilience

An interdisciplinary team led by Christine Hawkes is identifying beneficial fungi found in five key crops with the aim of using them to help plants fend off diseases and tolerate drought stress.

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Apr 21, 2020

No Limits

Goodnight Scholar Alex Rojas ’20 is applying skills developed in the scholarship program to an internship at BioMedomics, where he leads a team assembling and shipping out boxes of rapid COVID-19 tests.

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Sep 9, 2011

Luginbuhl launches two scholarship endowments at retirement celebration

Dr. Geraldine Luginbuhl, professor of microbiology and assistant director of Academic Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, retired from N.C. State after 37 years as a faculty member.

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