KBS graduate student awarded Beneke Fellowship

Brandon Kristy, a graduate student in the Evans Lab at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, was awarded an Everett “Tex” Beneke Fellowship in Mycology by the Michigan State University Graduate School. The fellowship award occurred in December 2025.

About the award

Recipients of the Beneke Fellowship are, as Kristy is, pursuing a graduate degree related to mycology. The award is named for Dr. Everett “Tex” Beneke, who made tremendous contributions to MSU and to the discipline of mycology and the profession of medical mycology over his 40-year career as a faculty member. His medical mycology course was the highlight of many mycology and medical technology students and his research on the fungi that infect humans had national and international impact.

He and co-author Alvin Rogers wrote Medical Mycology and Human Mycoses, a book of choice for researchers and physicians on the topic. Dr. Beneke won many prestigious awards during his distinguished career including the William H. Weston Award in 1984 from the Mycological Society of America for outstanding teaching in mycology and the Rhoda Benham Award from the Medical Mycology Society of the Americas also in 1984.

Join us in congratulating Brandon.