Aracely Miron-Ocampo successfully defended her M.S. thesis on April 13th, 2026, completing the Pathology M.S. program. Aracely’s thesis is titled, "Profiling the Nasal Microbiome in People with Multiple Sclerosis."

Rachel Fitzjerrells, a Bioinformatics and Computational Biology PhD student in the Mangalam Lab, won the prestigious Max Smith Oral Presentation Award at the 71st Iowa Section AADOCR on February 13th, 2024.

Stephanie Peterson successfully defended her PhD thesis in early October and completed the Immunology PhD program.