Congratulations Samantha for being selected as a 21st Century Leader.
Sam and 9 others will be recognized at the Undergraduate Commencement.
Please see the link to read more about it.

Jennifer’s paper about the PMf (a novel membrane domain) has been accepted and will be published in PNAS this week. Pictured is a fluorescence microscopy image of growing Mycobacterium smegmatis expressing red and green fluorescent proteins localized to the classical plasma membrane (green) and a novel membrane domain (red).
Thanks to everyone involved!

Follow the link below to see the paper:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/04/21/1525165113.abstract

For additional news articles about this publication:
UMass Amherst News & Media Relations
EurekAlert!
PHYS.ORG
Science Daily

A team of four University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers are the Armstrong Fund for Science winners for 2016, which is granting $40,000 over two years to encourage transformative research on campus that introduces new ways of thinking about pressing scientific or technical challenges…. See more details here.

Sam will be presenting her research at the conference!

Follow the link for more information:
https://honorsweb1.honors.umass.edu/urc/