The Department of Microbiology is pleased to announce that Dr. Vincent Starai has been selected as a recipient of the Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award for 2024.

These awards for excellence in teaching annually honor outstanding faculty in the Franklin College who have shown a sustained commitment to high-quality instruction. Congratulations to Dr. Starai!

List of previous recipients

Career Talk with Microbiology Seminar Speaker, Dr. Aisha Burton, on Friday April 19^th, at 10 am Biological Sciences Room 217. 

Distinguished Research Professor 2024

The title of Distinguished Research Professor recognizes senior faculty who are internationally recognized for their innovative body of work and its transformational impact on the field. The Professorship is awarded to faculty working at the very top of their discipline, who are recognized as a preeminent leader in their field of study. 

The Microbiology Undergraduate Program had several participants in this years CURO Symposium at the Classic Center.

Best Paper Award for Physical and Environmental Science

Abbey Wilson won the CURO Symposium Best Paper Award for Physical and Environmental Science with her paper titled “Developing Real-Time qPCR Methods for Antimicrobial Resistance Gene Quantification for Application in Wastewater Based Epidemiology.”

Career Talk with Microbiology Seminar Speaker, Dr. Aisha Burton, on Friday April 19^th, at 10 am Biological Sciences Room 217. 

Dr. Burton will share her career journey, graduate school experiences, and how she became a Provost New Faculty Fellow (2024 - 2026) and an incoming NIH Cornell Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology (2026). Following this talk, we’ll have a Q&A session to get to know our speaker better and get some great advice on grad school and beyond! 

Food and beverage will be catered for this event. Fill out this RSVP form for a headcount: https://forms.gle/oCxmWCvfuTWHi6RN8

Sponsored by the Microbiology Graduate Student Association.

The Microbiology Undergraduate Program was recently awarded the Regents' Teaching Excellence Award for Department or Program. This award is designed to showcase an outstanding department or program that promotes, supports, and recognizes excellence in teaching and innovative approaches to serving students.

Each faculty and staff member have contributed to the programs success over the last twenty years and therefore have all earned this award. Dr. Jennifer Walker, Undergraduate Program Coordinator, took the initiative to apply for this award.