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10-18-11 ASM announced in Microbe magazine that Laura Williams is one of three recipients of Career Development Grants for Postdoctoral Women.

4-26-11 Congratulations to Dr. Brian Higgins, who has been selected to be a Lilly Teaching Fellow at UGA.

4-13-2011 Dr. Anna Karls won the 2011 UGA Graduate School Outstanding Mentoring Award.

3-23-11 Dr. Eric Stabb and Dr. Anna Karls are recipients of the 2011 UGA Master Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring and the 2011 UGA Graduate School Outstanding Mentoring Award, respectively.

3-4-11 Dr. Wendy Dustman recognized by the Franklin College by the designation Outstanding Teacher.

2-8-2011 Dr. William (Barny) Whitman was just appointed a Distinguished Research Professor

2-7-2011 Dr. Anna Karls Named Public Service and Outreach Fellow for Spring 2011

1-20-2011 Dr. Dan Colley named 2011 AAAS Fellow.

11-15-2010 Wendy Dustman is this year’s recipient of the Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award!

10-23-2010 USA Science & Engineering Festival.

8-10-2010 American Society for Microbiology honors William Whitman.

8-4-10 Alecia Septer has been selected to receive an ARCS foundation award - a well deserved honor!

5-4-2010 Graduate student Deanna Colton was just awarded a one year fellowship from the Georgia Oceans and Health Initiative.

6-5-10 Stephen LaVoie has just been notified of a travel award to attend and present a poster at the Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry GRC

5-27-10 Katie Miller and Melissa Tumen have received Sloan Scholarships in the Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences.

5-20-10 Vanessa Varaljay also has been awarded a Travel Grant from the Gordon Research Conferences

5-20-10 Tye Boynton has received a Gordon Research Conferences travel award.

5-19-10 Bradley Tolar has been awarded a travel grant from the Gordon Research Conferences.

5-4-2010 Graduate student Laura Cuff and post doc KT Elliott were awarded Young Scientist Travel Grants (sponsored by FEMS and ESCMID) to attend the 8th International Symposium on the Biology of Acinetobacter (2010) in Rome, Italy.

5-4-2010 Graduate student Chris Reisch has been awarded a Dissertation Completion Assistantship.

3-15-2010 Harry Dailey, Duncan Krause and Rob Maier become new AAAS Fellows.

2-16-2010 Congratulations to Harry Dailey and Rob Maier who were recently elected as Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology.

11-23-2009 Stephen C. Dorner Receives the George J. Mitchell Postgraduate Scholarship

11-20-2009 Graduate student Karen Bowers, from the Wiegel lab, received the President’s Award for best graduate student poster presentation at the 95th annual American Society for Microbiology Southeastern Branch

11-3-2009 Dr. Barny Whitman receives the prestigious J Roger Porter Award

6-19-2009 Congratulations to Dr. Wendy Dustman, Dr. Anna Karls and Caran Cagle.

6-1-2009 Yuchen Liu has been awarded a Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation
Completion Award. 

4-7-2009 Dana M. Cook to represent US at the "The Theoretical and Practical Course on Molecular Approaches for In Situ Biodegradation" sponsored by the US-European Commission Task Force on Biotechnology Research.

4-7-2009 Dr. Anna Karls receives the 2009 CURO Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Early Career Faculty Award.

3-21-2009 Dr. Wendy Dustman Wins Outstanding Academic Advising Award.

3-20-2009 Caran Cagle, Suzanne Hennigan, and Noha Mesbah Recieve Awards

2-16-2009 Congratulations to Dr. Noha Mesbah, recipient of the 2009 Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award.

11-20-2008 Life Sciences Career Symposium was a sucess thanks to a great planning committee initiated by BMB Grad Student Keri Smith and Microbiology representative, Grad Student Alecia Septer

11-25-2008 Dr. Anna Karls lands Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award.

11-6-2008(Dr. Joy Doran-Peterson) Nickolas Worley recognized as Agriscience Student of Year and presented with approximately $6,000 in scholarship/ travel funding at annual National FFA Convention.

9-8-2008 Microbiology has been selected to
receive one of the first Embracing Diversity Awards from UGA.

6-26-2008 Sarah Craven and Charles Rosenberg have been selected to participate in the
2008 Graduate School Emerging Leaders Program.

5-1-2008 Patricia Bates receives the Staff Excellence Award from the Franklin College.

4-14-2008 Isaac Wagner and Todd Smith recieve Dissertation Completion Award for 2008-2009.

4-4-2008 Elizabeth Burgess, Noha Mesbah and Sarah Craven recieve ASM travel awards. Caran Cagle is awarded a Graduate School Teaching Seminar Assistantship.

4-1-2008 Chris Reich to participate in Microbial Oceanography seminar in Hawaii. Jason Cloward and How-Yi Chen both received travel awards to attend Congress of the International Organization for Mycoplasmology in Tianjin, China.

4-1-2008 Alecia Septer receives three-year National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG)Fellowship. 

3-27-2008 Juergen Wiegel awarded a Distinguished Research Professorship.

3-20-2008 Adrienne Cottrell recieves DEA Award