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After 41 years of outstanding research, teaching, and service to the University, Donald A. Bryant marks his retirement and ensures his continued legacy at Penn State with a planned bequest.

Penn State microbiologist’s estate gift to establish new chair and lectureship | Eberly College of Science Don Bryant is retiring after 41 years and announcing an estate contribution establishing an endowed chair and lectureship.

We are please to announce that Shay Toner has been named a department student marshal and will represent BMB at the Spring 2022 commencement ceremony!

Join us in congratulating Shay for showing exactly why !

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We are please to announce that Victoria Tachinski has been named a department student marshal and will represent BMB at the Spring 2022 commencement ceremony!

Join us in congratulating Victoria for showing exactly why !

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We are please to announce that Bryce Katch has been named a department student marshal and will represent BMB at the Spring 2022 commencement ceremony!

Join us in congratulating Bryce for showing exactly why !

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We are please to announce that Claire Sweitzer has been named a department student marshal and will represent BMB at the Spring 2022 commencement ceremony!

Join us in congratulating Claire for showing exactly why !

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Myrrh Pérez Ruiz receives American Society for Microbiology Future Leaders Mentoring Fellowship

Her research focuses a protein known as RNase I. Join us in congratulating Myrrh for being a wonderful example of why !

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Join us in congratulating Ellie Kim on being named a Goldwater Scholar!

Barry Goldwater Scholarship Foundation, one of the oldest and most prestigious national scholarships in the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics in the United States, seeks to identify and support college sophomores and juniors who show exceptional promise of becoming this Nation’s next generation of research leaders in these fields.

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Join us in congratulating Samantha Hartmann for being honored with the Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award!

Her research focuses on structural virology, an important field that analyzes virus structure in relation to function.

Congratulations Samantha and thank you for being a wonderful example of why !

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Today's features Sarah Chang a 2016 graduate of Penn State and BMB.

She earned her degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and now is completing her PhD at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and MIT Department of Biology

Learn more about Sarah at https://bit.ly/3xLvSjm

Check out the first of 2 videos in our Undergrads in the Lab series.

Today's premiere features Emily Meinert, an Undergraduate Researcher within our department, working in the Okafor Lab.

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Penn State BMB's Undergrads in the Lab, featuring Emily Meinert Emily Meinert, an undergraduate student in Penn State's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, talks about her experience in the lab as an undergr...

Congratulations to our own Alyssa Addesso on her recent Professional Master's Excellence Award!

It's a proud moment when our students both succeed and shine!

Congratulations to our own Alyssa Addesso on receiving the Professional Master's Excellence Award.

The award recognizes achievement in a Penn State professional master's degree program, and is based upon academic record and impact of the student's culminating experience. For Alyssa, that is her excellent research with the Holland Lab Group.

Congratulations again, Alyssa! You make us proud!

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BMB alumni, Jake Hornick, uses his education and position as Head Brewer at Hinterland Brewery to participate in the Black is Beautiful Initiative.

The Black Is Beautiful initiative supports the Harriet Baskerville Incubation Program, a nonprofit whose aim is to further the interest of minority and women-owned breweries, and give them get a leg up in an industry which is currently lacking their representation.

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