Awards and recognition of faculty, staff, students and alumni of the CWRU Biology department.

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Susan Burden-Gulley Awarded Biology Student’s Choice for Outstanding Faculty, Additional Nominations

On April 28, 2026, Dr. Sue Burden-Gulley was awarded the Department of Biology Students' Choice Award for Outstanding Faculty. The process for identifying the recipient of this award is entirely done by undergraduate students, and is a testament to Dr. Burden-Gulley's outstanding positive impact on our students. Additionally, Dr....

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BioChem Alum and Former Biology TA Awarded NSF GRFP Fellowship

Anjali Raju (CWRU ‘24) was recently awarded as part of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the “Life Sciences – Structural Biology” category, which “recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time research-based master's and doctoral degrees in STEM fields”. Anjali shared some details about her...

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Sam Harbol Receives Best Student Proposal Award for Oglebay Small Grants Program

PhD candidate Sam Harbol from the Burns lab recently received the "Best Student Proposal" award for the Oglebay Small Grants program. The Oglebay Small Grants programs funds research conducted at the Squire Valleevue and Valley Ridge Farms. Sam's proposal details his experiment to manipulate the precipitation pattern using rainout...

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Biology Graduate Students Awarded GCAS GSSCE Grants

Three graduate students in the biology department were recently awarded GCAS Graduate Student Scholarship and Creative Endeavor Grants for their work in their respective fields Manish Sarkar "Context-dependent coexistence of social parasites: fungus-growing ant communities as a case study" Elizabeth Rush "A Novel Preclinical Mouse Model for Neonatal Marfan Syndrome Exhibits...

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