We had three of our graduate students from the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics placing first place during TAMU Student Research Week. Adriana Carolina Hernandez Moralez from Dr. Ry Young’s lab, received 1st place with her research talk. Also, Charles Farber from Dr. Dmitri Kurouski’s lab received 1st place with his Research Talk. In… Read More →
Starting the Year off Right….
It was a packed house to congratulate our 2018 Vice Chancellor’s Awards recipients at this years Texas A&M AgriLife Awards Ceremony. Dr. Chavela Carr was first up, as she was awarded this year’s Vice Chancellor Award in Teaching, then came, Mr. Jimmy Trinh, from Dr. Lanying Zeng’s lab, who was awarded the Graduate Student Research… Read More →
A Moment with the Staff
(No pictures of this event were taken as far we know, so these will have to suffice!) At the December 18, 2017 Holiday Celebration the staff presented Dr. Gregory D. Reinhart with a plaque to recognize his 17 years of service as their boss, leader, friend, colleague and department head. Words cannot express how much… Read More →
Dr. Gohil Named 2017-2018 Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar
The Office of the Dean of Faculties and the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) proudly announce this year’s Montague-CTE Scholar to Vishal Gohil, PhD. “I feel honored to receive the Montague-CTE Scholar Award. This award is very gratifying especially because I feel passionate about my teaching and it is good to know that my efforts… Read More →
Cocktails for Superbugs
What exactly kind of cocktails does Dr. Ry Young make? Read and listen to learn more about this professors miraculous cure for Dr. Tom Patterson. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-27/enlisting-viruses-as-allies-to-fight-superbugs-quicktake-q-a https://jamanetwork.com/learning/audio-player/14860505?resultClick=24
They Funded Me…….
That is correct, “they”, (meaning plural). Alfredo Erazo-Oliveras, a recent graduate student of our department, just received funding from the National Institute of Health AND a Ford Fellowship. What an honor! For the full story, click on the link below: NIH, Ford Foundation Honor Texas A&M Postdoctoral Researcher With Grant And Fellowship
Oh My….. $1,000.46 + Pies + Costumes + Donations + Pumpkins = HEROES!
October resulted in another busy but fun Fall Extravaganza for the departmental flower fund! Many thanks goes out to everyone who helped make it happen once again this year. We couldn’t do this without all of the support from everyone within the department and even outside of the department. We had VWR, Documation, Caremed, Napa… Read More →
Way To Represent
We are extremely proud of Sherry Coronado, Dr. Chavela Carr, Rafael Almanzar, Kristina Najjar and Jennifer Tran who were awarded the Dean’s Outstanding Achievement Awards on September 20, 2017. In addition, Drs. Jennifer Herman, Jorge Cruz-Reyes, Ping He, and Pingwei Li were recognized for their recent promotions. Dr. Dmitry Kurouski was welcomed as a new… Read More →
Dr. Hu presented with AFS College-Level Teaching Award
Dr. Hu was presented with Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Award by Dr. Allan Sams and Mr. Marty Holmes who attended the Biochemistry and Biophysics department faculty meeting on September 4, 2017. Dr. Hu has been a member of the department for 25 years and has been very innovative in his teaching career by… Read More →
YES, We Played, YES, We Won
Hurricane Harvey had us all thinking our friendly little game would not be taking place on Friday, August 25, 2017, but that was not the case. Thankfully, the rains didn’t begin until later that night. As usual the softball game was a lot of fun. It seems like every year, the graduate students start off… Read More →