News

Mahir Mazumder awarded 2026 Jim Hopper Memorial Undergraduate Research Award

The Department is delighted to recognize the 2026 awardee of the The Jim Hopper Memorial Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Mahir Mazumder…

New Molecular Genetics Graduate Fellowships

We congratulate these graduate students in Molecular Genetics labs who have been awarded competitive fellowships to support their studies

New Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Margot Kossmann Williams

The Department is excited to welcome Dr. Margot Kossmann Williams as a new Associate Professor!

Dr. Williams joins us from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, where she started her…

New Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Michael Kearse

The Department of Molecular Genetics is excited to welcome Associate Professor Dr. Michael Kearse to the department. Dr. Kearse previously served as an Associate Professor in the Ohio State…

Molecular Genetics recognized for Faculty Mentoring

The department was recently recognized for Faculty mentoring in a video from the Office of Academic Affairs here at OSU. Dr. Sharon Amacher, recent winner of the Faculty to Faculty Mentoring award…

Graduate Student Accomplishments

Our graduate students continue to earn amazing recognitions!

New award to Patrice Hamel and STILSA

Congratulations to Patrice Hamel and Joy Brihm-Spann who were recently awarded funds from the Career Center of Excellence (a catalyst grant for their proposal "i-STEM Careers”) and from the Center…

Christin Burd named co-director of the OSU Institute on Aging

Congratulations to Christin Burd who will be one of the inaugural co-Directors of the new OSU Institute on Aging. This university-wide effort unites faculty, clinicians and educators from across…

New Molecular Genetics Graduate Fellowships

Congratulations to these graduate students in the department who were recently awarded competitive fellowships:

Frederick Meckler (BSGP student, Christin Burd lab) was…