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Earlham Biochemistry Faculty Member Earns $461,575 NSF Grant

Lexie Kuzmishin Nagy, assistant professor of biochemistry at Earlham, is a recent grantee of a $461,575 National Science Foundation grant in support of research that will deepen the world’s understanding of how bacteria sense and respond to their environment. The grant was funded by NSF’s BRC-Bio, or Building Research Capacity within the Biological Sciences Program. The funding mechanism was primarily for minority-serving institutions or smaller colleges like Earlham.