Graduate Students

Hannah Stuwe (Barbar Lab) received the 2025 College of Science Inclusive Excellence Award.

Sarah Louie (Mehl/Cooley Lab) received the BB Department's Leadership/Citizenship Award.

Abraham Kpirikai (Mortimer Lab) received the 2025-2026 Mathews Fellowship Award.

Kristen Snitchler (Mortimer Lab) received the 2025-2026 Marion T. Tsefalas and Simone & Balz Frei Graduate Fellow from the Linus Pauling Institute (LPI).

Nick Bretz (Mortimer Lab) was awarded a Harvey & Donna Morre Research fellowship from the LPI.

Cameron Call (Vrailas-Mortimer Lab) received the 2025 Audrey & George Varseveld LPI Graduate Fellowship.

Mahya Payazdan (Gombart Lab) received a Young Investigator Award at the XIII International Society of Immunonutrition Conference for her oral presentation “Discovering how the expression of the cathelicidin gene is repressed by toll-like receptor signaling in response to vitamin D”. She also received the 2025 Hagen/Butler LPI Legacy fellowship from the LPI.

Undergraduate Students

Undergraduate researcher Estifanos Berhe (Mortimer lab) was selected as an OSU nominee for the Goldwater Scholarship.

Undergraduate Shelby Galipeau (Vrailas-Mortimer Lab) received multiple travel awards and the 2025 George Bailey Graduate Fellowship from LPI.