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IBC faculty Phil Bates confirmed as representative of IBC and Animal Sciences to WSU’s Faculty Senate. May 2024
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Graduate Student Jeremy Boutin (Lange Laboratory) was named College Representative of the Year by GPSA and received the LGBTQIA2S+ scholarship from WSU’s Commission for Gender Identity Expression and Sexual Orientation. May 2024
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Niharika Nonavinakare Chandrakanth, IBC PhD candidate in Molecular Plant Sciences was the winner of the CAHNRS 3-Minute Thesis competition and advanced to the WSU-wide competition. March 2024
Link to Niharika’s talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8xK4QL9SBo.
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Graduate student Sean McGuire won a poster presentation award at the WSU GPSA Research Expo in the Agricultural & Natural Resource Sciences category. March 2024
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Undergraduate student Ally Richards, won a poster presentation award at SURCA. March 2024
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IBC faculty Professor Mark Lange has accepted the IBC Director position. March 2024
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