On December 5, 2022, Binyam Belachew successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Biophysical and biochemical methods to determine the ability of hepatitis C virus non-structural protein 3 to unfold viral G-quadruplex RNA structures.” Dr. Belachew was mentored by Dr. Kevin Raney. He has accepted a position as a Specialist for the Biology Instructional Office at the University of Texas at Austin.