Allen W. Nicholson, professor of biology and chemistry and associate dean for research and graduate programs in the College of Science and Technology, received a competitive continuation grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for the project “Reactivity epitopes of ribonuclease III Substrates.” The goal of this project is to determine the role of double-stranded RNA processing in cellular and viral gene expression and regulation. The grant award provides $270,000 for the first year, with total funding estimated at $1,100,000 over a four-year period.