Professor recognized with award

Dr. Larry Reynolds of the Animal Sciences Department and the Center for Nutrition and Pregnancy at NDSU has been chosen as the 2026 recipient of the Beacon Award by the Frontiers in Reproduction Advanced Re-search Training course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. (http://fir.mbl.edu). According to the course's Board of Scientific Counselors, the award signifies “a tangible measure of peer-scientist respect for the (individual’s) international impact … and establishes him or her as a nation-ally valued source of illumination and guidance – a Beacon – in the development of research careers in the reproductive sciences.”

The Frontiers in Reproduction course is considered the premiere course of its kind in the world. The 20 students each year are from every continent (excluding Antarctica) and include senior Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows, medical fellows and junior faculty.

The Marine Biological Laboratory, which is home to the course, is the premiere biological research institution in the world.

More than 60 Nobel laureates, mostly in the categories of chemistry or of physiology or medicine, have been affiliated with the lab as students, faculty, staff, or visiting scientists (http://www.mbl.edu/nobels/).