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College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Biology, won a Faculty Start-Up Grant

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College of Arts and Sciences

January 1, 2022

In summer 2021, the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences won a $36,000 Faculty Start-Up Grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. This is the sixth Murdock Trust Faculty Start-Up grant won by the College of Arts and Sciences since 2017. The Department of Biology will hire a teacher-scholar with expertise in cellular and molecular biology which will grow the department to 22 permanent, full-time faculty. The selected candidate will teach three courses per semester and will adhere to rigorous departmental curricula that push students to develop a deep understanding of how life emerges – from DNA to diverse and complex living organisms that contribute to global diversity.

More about the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Faculty Start-Up grant program can be found here: https://murdocktrust.org/grant-opportunities/undergraduate-colleges-universities/ and information on the Department of Biology is available here: https://college.up.edu/biology/