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Three MGI Professors honored with university-wide awards
Three members from the Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology, or MGI, were recently recognized with university-wide awards: MSU Research Foundation Professor Shannon Manning was awarded the William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award; Assistant Professor Andrew Olive was selected for the MSU Teacher-Scholar Award; and University Distinguished Professor Edward “Ned” Walker received the 2024 Ralph H. Smuckler Award for Advancing International Studies at MSU.
Read the StoryTransgender scientists speak up about the challenges they face in academia and share how to support them
In a commentary published in the journal Cell, a group of 24 transgender (and/or family members of transgender) scientists describe what it’s like to be a transgender person in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine, or STEMM.
One of the co-authors is Maeve McLaughlin. McLaughlin is a postdoctoral researcher in MSU’s Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology.
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