Moore is among a small cohort of faculty from teaching-focused undergraduate institutions to be named an ASBMB Fellow, and an even smaller number of Fellows at the associate professor level. The award highlights Moore’s professional accomplishments, placing her alongside fellows that include Nobel Prize winners, deans and chairs at prestigious R1 institutions. Only a few faculty at undergraduate institutions have been named Fellows.

It also raises 黑料不打烊’s profile among a list of the nation’s top universities, medical schools and centers of research.

“It is such an honor. This is validation of my exemplary teaching and contributions to undergraduate education,鈥� Moore said. 鈥淚t is a distinguished title given to a highly selective group of scientists and the highest honor from my professional society. I鈥檓 listed as a named fellow among Nobel laureates and very highly regarded scientists for my expertise and work in teaching other teachers.鈥�

Moore is especially influential in the area of undergraduate teaching assessment. She was integral to the development and launch of the ASBMB’s undergraduate exam, which is now taken by more than 2,000 junior and senior undergraduate biology and molecular biology majors each year at ASBMB accredited programs.

That work led to her being co-principal of a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation-funded grant to develop and deliver workshops around student assessment to undergraduate biology faculty across the nation. These workshops focus on inclusive teaching and mentoring, and guide biochemistry and molecular biology undergraduate faculty across the country in best practices to accurately reflect students’ subject matter mastery. At the same time, they are also establishing a more diverse and inclusive network of faculty focused on聽teaching and assessment.

Fellows are nominated by their ASBMB colleagues for demonstrating exceptional and sustained service to the society, as well as accomplishments in research, education, mentorship, diversity and inclusion, advocacy and service to the scientific community. Over the years, Moore has served on multiple ASBMB committees, and twice co-organized the education and professional development sessions for its national conference.

Moore is among the ASBMB’s fifth class of 24 Fellows selected by the society’s Membership Committee. The society will recognize the 2025 class at its annual meeting, April 12鈥�15, in Chicago.

鈥淲e are glad to welcome the 24 new ASBMB fellows in the 2025 class,鈥� said Chi Fung Lee, membership committee task force chair and assistant professor of cardiovascular biology research at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. 鈥淭hey have shown remarkable commitment to ASBMB through their sustained service, as well as impactful accomplishments in their professions of research, education, advocacy and service to the scientific community. We are honored to have these colleagues to represent ASBMB. We look forward to their continued contribution as role models and mentors to inspire members of ASBMB.鈥�

The data in the paper are聽the culmination of McKee’s Honors Thesis and Lumen Project research. McKee is currently a 2nd year medical student at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

Associate Professor Vickie Moore in the Department of Chemistry is co-principal investigator on a new five-year National Science Foundation award titled “An Inclusive Community Transforming the Assessment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Learning in Undergraduate Programs”.

The grant of nearly $500,000 will fund a series of national and international workshops with co-principal investigators Dan Dries of Juniata College and Kim Cortes of Kennesaw State University.

The grant is through the聽Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education division of NSF and will focus on training undergraduate biochemistry and molecular biology educators, especially those from HBCUs and MSIs, in formative, summative, and alternative assessment.

Additionally, a central goal of the grant is to build and sustain a community of practice as well as serve as a source of professional development opportunities for participating faculty. The grant is a follow up to a one-year pilot grant from the NSF awarded to Moore, Dries and Cortes that funded a virtual workshop attended in July 2020 by biochemistry and molecular biology educators from across the country.

The research stems from many years of Moore’s work with the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology on its national undergraduate biochemistry exam.

Moore’s research students Kyle Lynch ’17, a biochemistry major, presented on his honors thesis research about sepsis-associated acute kidney injury, and Stefanie Miller ’17, also a biochemistry major, presented about her honors thesis research on heart disease arising from Type 2 diabetes. Both were part of the undergraduate poster competition, where Miller won an honorable mention, as well as the main scientific sessions. Moore, an Education Fellow and member of the Accreditation Steering Committee for the Biochemistry society, gave a talk about the national undergraduate biochemistry exam she helped develop. Moore also walked in the “March for Science”; Chicago was one of the 600 cities around the world that participated on April 22.

Train’s students Jessica Graham ’17, a biochemistry major, presented her Lumen Prize research about nestin expression in neuroblastoma, and Kate Levenberg ’17, a public health studies major, presented her Lumen Prize research about cytokine production by insulin-resistant adipocytes at the scientific sessions. Carly Weddle ’17, an honors student and Lumen Prize recipient working with Karl Sienerth, a professor of chemistry, presented a poster about chemical markers for early diagnosis of melanoma at the scientific sessions.  

Evans presented a poster about the effects of aerobic exercise on select markers of cognitive function in breast cancer survivors, which is a collaborative project in conjunction with Theresa Ramos (assistant professor, Department of Physician Assistant Studies), Amy Overman (associate professor, Department of Psychology), Eric Hall (professor, Department of Exercise Science), Titch Madzima (assistant professor, Department of Exercise Science), Steve Bailey (professor, Department of Physical Therapy Education) and Amanda Neuhauser, Rebecca Breve, and Laura Martin (second-year DPT students).

Taylor received recognition from the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for her research and  She was also awarded a $500 travel grant to attend the conference.

The Experimental Biology Conference is a multidisciplinary scientific meeting comprised of over 14,000 scientists. Taylor presented at both the undergraduate and professional poster sessions. More than 200 undergraduates from colleges and universities around the country competed.

Under the mentorship of Assistant Professor Vickie Moore in the Department of Chemisty, Taylor has spent two and a half years on her project analyzing the role and mechanism of apoptosis in heart development. Taylor is an Honors Fellow and recipient of the Lumen Prize, the university’s top award for undergraduate research and creative achievement, and she will attend medical school next year at the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine. 

Davis, who is also an Honors Fellow, has been working wtih Moore since her sophomore year, studying changes to BCL-2 proteins during heart development. Lampl has been investigating changes to mitochondria that lead to kidney damage during severe infection. 

A manuscript detailing methods developed by Moore’s lab was accepted in August for publication in the Journal of Visual Experimentation, a peer-reviewed journal that publishes both a paper manuscript as well as a video on scientific topics. A film crew will come to campus during the 2014 fall semester to capture the researchers performing the experiments detailed in their paper. 

“Characterization of Binding Between 17β-estradiol and Estriol with Humic Acid via NMR and Biochemical Analysis” used a combination of analytical and biochemical techniques to seek a more substantial understanding of binding between estrogens and humic acid. Understanding estrogen-humic substance interactions is of importance in order to guide thoughtful decisions on potential regulatory controls of pharmaceuticals, such as estrogens, in wastewater. 

It was accepted on Feb. 2 and a preliminary version published online on Feb. 14.  

Eugene Gooch Memorial Organic Chemistry Achievement Award – Samantha Coffer

Junior Departmental Service Award – Alex Bruch

Senior Chemistry Achievement Award – Cecilia Smith

Senior Biochemistry Achievement Award – Kelsey van Dalfsen

Special Departmental Service Award – Colin Gartner

ACS Analytical Award – Russell Davidson

The study was done in conjunction with Anthony Letai, MD, PhD at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute which is part of Harvard Medical School, and included both clinical and research collaborators. The paper is the culmination of several years of research and represents a step toward understanding chemotherapy response of cancer cells. The research utilized BH3 profiling, a novel research tool to assess mitochondria, developed by Dr. Letai that Dr. Moore assisted in evaluating and improving during her postdoctoral work in Dr. Letai’s lab. A major implication of this research is that BH3 profiling might be useful in identifying new, more effective chemotherapy drugs.