BSD's Quantitative Biology Bootcamp awarded NSF funding
UChicago Biosciences' distinctive Quantitative Biology Bootcamp at MBL, now in its third year, has been awarded funding through the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award is part of the NSF's...
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UChicago urges White House and Congress to continue DACA
In a letter on September 2, 2017, President Robert J. Zimmer and Provost Daniel Diermeier urged President Trump to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). In their letter, Zimmer and Diermeier point out that the program provides approximately 800,000 students in the United...
Grad students DJ Speed and Christina Roman receive HHMI Gilliam Fellowships
UChicago Biosciences graduate students Christina Roman (Piccirilli lab, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) and...
Prof. Andrey Rzhetsky and grad student Kanix Wang uncover novel correlations between diseases using big data
Andrey Rzhetsky, the Edna K. Papazian Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics, and Kanix Wang, Rzhetsky lab member and Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology...
Prof. Zhe-Xi Luo & grad student David Grossnickle discover earliest winged mammals with international team
Professor Zhe-Xi Luo (Organismal Biology and Anatomy) and graduate student David Grossnickle (Comittee on Evolutionary Biology) are authors on two papers published in the journal Nature on the earliest winged mammals. 160 million-...
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UChicago Biosciences student featured in Self magazine
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program student Molly Imgruet (McNerney lab) has been featured in Self magazine for her participation in the recent March for Science Chicago. Asked why she marched, Imgruet answered...
Former White House Associate Director of Science leads science policy seminar
On Tuesday, April 25, 2017, Jo Handelsman, PhD, came to the University of Chicago to lead a science policy seminar sponsored by the Postdoctoral Association Science Policy Committee....
Grad students and postdocs march for science in Chicago and Washington
On Saturday, April 22, 2017, University of Chicago students and postdocs from the Biological Sciences Division came together with other STEM folks and beyond on Saturday to demonstrate in support of science.
An estimated 60,000 people showed up to march on Saturday, according to the...
Paleontologist Zeray Alemseged joins UChicago Bioscience faculty
Zeray Alemseged, PhD, recently joined the Deaprtment of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. Alemseged's specialty is early human evolution, rounding out the research focuses in UChicago's top-ranked...
An EYH workshop leader shows girls how to use DNA samples to identify bird pathogens.
Expanding Your Horizons Chicago hosts STEM outreach event on campus
On March 25, 2017, Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) Chicago hosted a day-long conference for middle school girls on the University of Chicago campus. Close to 250 students attended the event, where they engaged in workshops related to careers...