October's recipients are Jennifer Elwood and Emily Newcomb

Congratulations to Souradip Sinha, BS MS, a doctoral student in Munir Tanas, MD’s research laboratory, who has been awarded the Ada Louise Ballard & Seashore Dissertation Fellowship by the Graduate College for the Spring 2027 semester.

Featuring: Lian Alt; Andrew Bellizzi, MD; Brooks Jackson, MD, MBA; Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD; David Meyerholz, DVM, PhD; Shailesh Shahi, PhD; Ti-Ara Turner, BS

Congratulations to Narges Firouzshahi, MS, a doctoral student in Marco Hefti, MD’s research laboratory, who has been awarded the Ada Louise Ballard & Seashore Dissertation Fellowship by the Graduate College for the Spring 2027 semester.

Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD has been appointed to serve as the Society for Mucosal Immunology’s Chair of the Communications Committee for the 2026-27 term.

Featuring: James Goeken, MD; Brooks Jackson, MD, MBA; David Meyerholz, DVM, PhD; Steven Offer, PhD

Matthew Kraswoski, MD, PhD was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the College of American Pathologists 2026 annual meeting. The Lifetime Achievement award is awarded to pathologists who have made broad, positive impacts on the pathology profession through contributions to one or more areas of the organization over an extended period of time.

Two pathology research mentees Sandeep Singh Dhingra, MS and Cyrus Barati, BS received the Richard G. Lynch Award for Excellence in Pathology Research for the research they conducted in the Yang and Mangalam labs.

Congratulations to the 2026–27 Masters of Science in Pathology program and Experimental Pathology PhD program student recipients of the Imogene Fisher Grad Student Scholarship Fund and the Marilyn Ohm-Smith Grad Student Scholarship Fund.

Featuring: Brooks Jackson, MD, MBA; Nicole Becker, MD