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The Boulder Faculty Assembly has recognized Professor Meredith Betterton with their Excellence In Research, Scholarly and Creative Work award. Dr. Betterton studies the physics and biophysics of cell division. The award committee said "given the extraordinary quality of the submissions, the selection committees had to make difficult choices." The MCDB...

Mike Klymkowsky , a molecular, cellular and developmental biology professor who saved students over $5 million in textbook costs by making his co-authored texts open access, is being honored with an Open Educator Award.

Corrella Detweiler, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, and Wei Zhang, professor of chemistry and chair of the Chemistry Department, have been named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the academy announced today .

Mircea Fotino, a retired professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB), passed away on January 23, 2023, dying peacefully at home in the company of his family. Mircea was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1927, son of Scarlat Fotino and Marcella Teodorescu. He came to the USA for the...

Now out in Scientific American. Work in monogamous prairie voles at CU Boulder and other institutions is revealing the neurobiology of love and providing surprising new insights into how social bonds form, why voles get stressed when their partners are stressed, and how they console each other through touch. From...

Lisa Hiura has been awarded a DP5 Early Independence Award . Lisa is a postdoc in the Donaldson lab. This award will allow her to begin to build her independent research program.

Sara Sawyer has just been awarded the very competitive NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for her project titled: “Breaking the Barrier to an HIV Vaccine”.

Professor emeritus remembered for his ability to present vital material expertly and for his humor, intelligence and interest in people. L. Andrew Staehelin, a longstanding member of the University of Colorado Boulder Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) passed away on Sept. 28, 2022. He was 83. Andrew...

After years of progress in the battle against antimicrobial-resistance, so-called “superbugs” have made a concerning comeback in the age of COVID, with resistant hospital-onset infections and deaths soaring at least 15% in the first year of the pandemic alone, according to a new Centers for Disease Control report .

Recently promoted Associate Professor Zoe Donaldson along with her postdoctoral fellow, Julie Sadino, and fourth-year graduate student, Liza Brusman, have travelled to the School of Molecular and Theoretical Biology (SMTB) in Estonia for a joint teaching collaboration. They will work with ~50 international high school students to develop new ways...