Departmental Updates

2018-2019 Headlines: 

• Graduate Students Ben Nelson and Colleen LaForce present at OAS with Dr. Mostafa Elshahed

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• Shawn Savuto, Coop Brewery, Chase Healy, American Solera Brewery, and Chris White, White Labs at the Oklahoma Craft Beer Forum April 8th, 2018 

2017-2018 Headlines:

• Dr. Lutter, Dr. Wozniak, and Dr. Morgenstein all made pancakes at the Late Night Cafe in the Student Union Food Court on May 8!

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• The Women's Faculty Council Research Award Ceremony was held recently. Michelle King, our graduate student, was one of the winners. Her advisor is Dr. Marianna Patrauchan. 

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• The Graduate Student Symposium is happened on Friday, April 20. Here are some pictures from the event.

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• Some students and faculty went to the OCRID conference on April 3, 2018. Here are some pictures from the event: 

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• The 2018 Research Day at the Capitol happened on March 27. The Microbiology Department had one student, Emily Gietzen, representing us from Dr. Lutter's lab. 

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• Some faculty and students went to the ASM conference that was held on March 10, 2018. 

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• The Microbiology Association or the Micro Club held a skate night at the Stillwater Roller Dome on February 22, 2018. 

• The University Awards Convocation was held on December 6, 2017. Dr. Tyrrell Conway won a Newly Appointed Regents Professors Award. This award is given to faculty that have made outstanding contributions to their discipline through instruction, research, or scholarly and extension or outreach activities. Dr. Erika Lutter won a Advising Excellence Award, an award that provides institutional recognition for outstanding academic advising. 

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• Let Chunk show you the way around campus in this cute video!
• Dr. Cabeen had an open lab on November 10, 2017. 

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• Happy Birthday to Connie Budd, our director of the undergraduate microbiology labs!

• Dr. Cabeen was the honorary coach at the Bedlam game on Sept. 4, 2017!
• There was a Student Research Symposium held in September. Here are some pictures from the event. 

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2016-2017 Headlines:

• Learn more about the newest Micro class "Brewing Microbiology" here. This class is offered for free to the public as a MOOC and also  as a MICR 4003 credit for students.  It is taught by our own Tyrrell Conway.

• Daniel McLeod was elected the President of the Arts and Sciences Student Council!

• Dr. Robert L. Burnap has been elected to the fellowship status in the American Academy of Microbiology! Read more about it here.

• 2016-2017 Graduate Teaching Assistants/Research Assistants Student Injury and Sickness Plan for OSU can be found here. 

• The Microbiology Department held a banquet to hand out student awards. It was held on April 27, 2017 at the Murray Hall Parlor from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. 

• The Student Research Symposium was on March 27, 2017! It was held in the Noble Research Center Lobby from 5:00 PM to 7:15 PM. Click the link to see all of the abstracts of the presenters of the night.

• Some of our students presented at the American Society for Microbiology. It was held at Missouri State University in Springfield, MO on March 17th and 18th. Those students were Michelle King and Biraj Kayastha from the Patrauchan lab and Colby Starr, Rawan Eleshy, and Prakash Sah from the Lutter Lab. 

• Here are some pictures from a couple of recent Microbiology Department events!
• Under the HHMI Project, OSU undergraduates discover novel bacterial genomes. 

• The MMG Newsletter for Fall 2016 is out. Read it here. 

• The Women in Science Conference was held at the Mabee Center in Tulsa, OK on October 11, 2016. Our department had a table, "Wonderful World of Microbes".

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• The Microbiology Association is holding a Departmental Cookout at Boomer Lake on Sunday Sept. 25th from 1-5 PM at Pavilion #3. Some food will be provided, but it is pot luck. Bring your favorite dish and bring some friends!

• Congratulations to Tim Burchard, Kolton Kardokus, and Savannah Martin for being named as part of the top 20 men and women at OSU.

• Honor and recognize Norman Durham for serving OSU and the Microbiology Department for fourty-one years.

• Congratulations to John Whitney for becoming a Distinguished Alumni!

2015-2016 Headlines:

• Congratulations to Gretchan Moore for being named a 2015 Future Care Scholar by Tylenol!  

• Biraj Kayastha is named Outstanding Teaching Assistant!

• We are pleased to announce that Dr. Karen Fortmann, from White Labs, will be the honary speaker at this year's departmental symposium.

• Congratulations to Mary Jane Wooten for being named a Distinguished Alumni!

• View our fellow homecoming queen, Carlie Goekeler, in her interview with the Dean of Arts and Sciences.