Tom Oakley 
LAS CRUCES – Two biology professors at New Mexico State University were awarded a nearly $800,000 three-year NASA grant to study how biological changes in bacteria affect complex organisms. NMSU Regents Professor Michele Nishiguchiand assistant professor Maria Castillo are both in the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences. Nishiguchi specializes in microbial ecology research … Read more
Congratulations to Sydney Salas for graduating with Honors from NMSU Biology! She is headed off for her MBA at Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
Congratulations to Haneen Omari for receiving a Jornada LTER summer fellowship, as well as a travel grant from the Phycological Society of America to attend the annual meetings in Vancouver, BC.
Lizet Martinez won the Soroptimist’s “Living the Dream” award for $1000. The $1,000 Education & Training Award assists women who provide the primary source of financial support for their families by giving them the resources they need to improve their education, skills, and employment prospects. Read More about the award.
Congratulations to Brian Pipes for receiving a Charlotte Mangum student award for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meetings.
Michele K. Nishiguchi, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
School of Natural Sciences
University of California, Merced
Merced, CA 95343
Tel: (209) 228-4400 (Dept Office)
Email: nish@ucmerced.edu
