David Mendoza-Cozatl, assistant professor of plant sciences and a member of the Interdisciplinary Plant Group (IPG), has been given the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research & Creative Activity in the Biological Sciences.

Mendoza-Cozatl’s lab’s main goal is to understand how plants take up, accumulate and transport trace metals between roots and leaves (plant nutrition) and from leaves to seeds (for human nutrition).

This award gives special recognition to MU faculty members who are still in the developmental phases of their careers, have made outstanding contributions in research and/or creative activity and have great promises for achieving wider recognition.