On September 1, 2023, Matthew Bochman, Associate Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, received the IU Food and Agrarian Systems Natural Sciences Research Impact Award for his research on fermentation science. The Bochman lab has worked with craft breweries and distilleries, both locally and further afield, to tackle projects ranging from process engineering to novel yeast strain identification and characterization. Dr. Bochman if also co-founder of Wild Pitch Yeast, LLC.