The Ernest Peralta Fund Award for 2003-04 was given to Amy Jordan, a graduate student in the laboratory of Nancy Kleckner, for her study of the structural features of meiotic recombination using the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. [more]

Tom Maniatis has been named a co-recipient of the 2003 Milstein Award. The award is presented by the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to research related to interferons and cytokines either in a basic or clinical field. [more]

On October 10, 2003, Mervyn Turner of Merck Research Laboratories presented the second-annual Merck/Wiley Fellowships to two MCB graduate students: Antonia Holway, a third-year graduate student in the laboratory of Matthew Michael, and Adam Castoreno, a fourth-year graduate student in the laboratory of Axel Nohturfft. [more]