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On Wednesday, the Office of Research and the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost hosted the 2024 Faculty Awards Ceremony. This event recognized Utah State University faculty's research, service and teaching efforts.
For more than a decade, Utah State University scholars have pioneered research on the production and structure of synthetic spider silk. Building on lessons learned, researchers in the lab of biology faculty member Justin Jones are branching into organisms beyond the eight-legged arachnids to explore a broader range of organisms as potential candidates for production of replicable, recombinant fibers.
As part of a series, Utah State Today is publishing profiles on a variety of leaders. This interview with Vice President of Research Lisa Berreau is in observation of March as Women’s History Month.