Manuel Llinás named Ernest C. Pollard Professor in Biotechnology

Congratulations to Manuel Llinás on being named the Ernest C. Pollard Professor in Biotechnology in recognition of his outstanding research contributions, teaching and service.  More information can be found in the press release.

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Shaun Mahony awarded Tershak Teaching Award

Congratulations to Shaun Mahony on his 2022-23 Daniel R. Tershak Memorial Teaching Award!  This award for teaching excellence was made to Dr. Mahony for his outstanding instruction of bioinformatics and computational biology courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Victoria Bonnell awarded Graduate Student Excellence in Mentoring Award

Congratulations to Tori Bonnell on her Penn State Graduate Student Excellence in Mentoring Award!  Tori was cited for her exemplary mentoring of undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs.  Tori also conducts K-1 outreach through the Graduate Women in Science organization.

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Erin Kelly wins Peter T. Luckie Award for Outstanding Research for all STEM posters

Erin Kelly, in Manuel Llinas lab, won the Peter T. Luckie Award for Outstanding Research for all STEM posters at the Undergraduate Research Exhibition 2020. Congratulations Erin! Erin Kelly STEM Poster

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CEGR Alum Awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship

Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation alum, Bede Portz Ph.D., wins $200,000 postdoctoral fellowship from the BrightFocus Foundation to study RNA phase transitions in neurodegenerative disease. Click here to learn about Dr. Portz and a summary of his research!

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CEGR Faculty Scott Showalter Promoted to Full Professor

Let us congratulate Scott Showalter Ph.D., of the Eberly College of Science, was promoted to full professor as of July 1st!!  Scott is a Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State University.

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Undergraduate Researchers win award at 2019 Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition

Congratulations to Ryan Santilli, Yoshitaka Shibata and John Williamson III in Song Tan’s lab for winning the “University Fellowships and Phi Kappa Phi Peter T. Luckie Award for Outstanding Research by a Junior” at the 2019 Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition held April 17, 2019.

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