We won "Best Academic Writing" at the NAGBW 2025 Awards!

Exciting news! We won first place in the 2025 North American Guild of Beer Writers Awards for "Best in Beer Media" today in the "Best Academic Writing" category for our recent Molecular Ecology publication: 

McElwee-Adame, Alexandra, Raya Esplin-Stout, Trevor Mugoya, George Vourlitis, Nautica Welch, John Henning, Kayser Afram, Maryam Ahmadi Jeshvaghane, Nathan Mingham, Alexis Dockter, Jacob Eslava, Giovanni Gil, Amran Mohamed, Tram Nguyen, Fatum Noor, Nathan Salcedo, and Arun Sethuraman. “Evolutionary History and Rhizosphere Microbial Community Composition in Domesticated Hops (Humulus lupulus L.).” Molecular Ecology, (2025). https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17769

Announcement here: https://reportersnotebook.org/uncategorized/north-american-guild-of-beer-writers-announces-2025-awards-winners-honoring-the-best-in-beer-media/

All co-authors are graduate students from our lab, or undergraduate students who were in the Fall 2023 version of BIOL 596 Research Methods in Agricultural Sciences course. Their experiments conducted through Fall 2023 form a big part of the described research.

CURE's are integral to our research mission, and I hope that we can continue to teach more of them at SDSU!