Barny Whitman, head of the microbiology department, has been selected to receive the 2010 USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award. The award will be presented at the American Society for Microbiology’s general meeting awards banquet and dinner May 24 in San Diego.
The Porter Award recognizes outstanding efforts by a scientist who has demonstrated the importance of microbial biodiversity through sustained curatorial or stewardship activities for a major resource used by the scientific community.
