Dr. Patrick Schlievert to receive teaching award

Former University of Minnesota Professor Patrick Schlievert, now Chair and Department Executive Officer of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Iowa, has been selected to receive the 2016 ASM Graduate Microbiology Teaching Award. This award honors exemplary teaching and recognizes an individual for distinguished teaching of microbiology and mentoring of students at the graduate and postgraduate levels and for encouraging students to subsequent achievement. Dr. Schlievert will be presented with the award at American Society of Microbiology's ASM Microbe 2016, to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, in June 2016.