Melissa Schofield and Muneeba Ahmed (both Life Sciences)  were recognized for their outstanding presentations at the 2019 AZ-NV American Society for Microbiology branch meeting.

Schofield, a doctoral student in Boo Shan Tseng's lab, received the top prize for graduate student oral presentation.

Ahmed, an undergraduate researcher in Brian Hedlund's lab, was recognized for an outstanding poster presentation