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The University of Georgia’s iGEM team won a gold medal and runner up for Best Measurement Project award at the 2015 iGEM Giant Jamboree held September 24-28 at Boston, MA. 280 iGEM teams and more than 2700 attendees from across the globe participated in the 2015 competition.

Congratulations to the following faculty members for their award recognition at the Franklin Faculty Recogntion Dinner held on Thursday, September 24th. Dr. Art Edison - Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Dr. David Garfinkel - AAAS Fellow

The Bioexpression and Fermentation Facility recently acquired the DasBox system from Eppendorf.  The system is capable of independently controlling 4 x 250 mL bioreactors. This new capability will the BFF to accelerate process development projects in cell culture.

Three Honors students and Foundation Fellows - Lauren Dennison, Erin Hollander and Karishma Sriram - received the 2015 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the premier undergraduate scholarship in Mathematics, the Natural Sciences and Engineering.