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2023 Distinguished Alumnus- Steven Shugart

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

2023 ME Distinguished Alumnus: Steven Shugart, in recognition of outstanding leadership and contributions to computer hardware, software, and networking solutions.

Assistant Professor Enoch Yeung's Early CAREER Award will allow him to further study how the phenomena of DNA supercoiling and writhing affect gene transcription. Photograph by Lilli McKinney

An NSF Early CAREER Award to Study DNA Dynamics and Gene Transcription

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

We often think of DNA as the classic double-helix structure we learned about in high school, consisting of two twisting chains made up of various sequences of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine.

Elliot Hawkes and Tyler Susko NIH Recipients

Congratulations Elliot Hawkes & Tyler Susko- NIH Recipients

Friday, September 29, 2023

Congratulations Elliot Hawkes and Tyler Susko for receiving a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for their research on the characterization and clinical trial of a Variable Friction Shoe

Congratulations Yangying Zhu- 2024 Young Investigator Award Recipient

Friday, September 29, 2023

Congratulations Professor Yangying Zhu on being selected for a 2024 Young Investigator Award. The title of her project is "Suppressing Flow Boiling Instabilities Using Surface Structures".