BSD makes GRE optional
Joining the ranks of more than 60 institutions and graduate programmes across the United States, the Biological Sciences Division has cut a standard test from its graduate admissions requirements. The decision aims to boost the likelihood of admission for minority and female applicants by...
Comprehensive Cancer Center provides hands-on research experience for students and teachers
Chicago Educators and Youth Enjoy Science (Chicago EYES), a science pipeline program led by Professor Eileen Dolan (Cancer Biology; Genetics,...
Humans and sharks share a common ancestor
A recent article published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B suggests that humans and sharks shared a common ancestor some 440 million years ago.
Study authors include professor...
BSD faculty receive named, distinguished service professorships
Professors Daniel A. Arber (Pathology), Bana Jabri (Committee on Immunology, Committee on Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition), Carole Ober (Human Genetics; Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology), and Louis Philipson (Committee on Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition) have all...
Grad student Daniel Ruiz first author on study linking endocrine disrupters to racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic health disparities
Daniel Ruiz (Committee on Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition) is the first author on a study in ...
New paper shows that amputees can control robotic arms
Karthikeyan Balasubramanian, senior researcher in the Hatsopoulos lab, is the first author on a new paper in Nature that shows that...
Horned Larks collected in Illinois between 1904 and 1916 (left) and California and British Columbia between 1903 and 1922 (right). (Photo: Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay).
UChicago grad students measure pollution in the past
UChicago Biosciences graduate student Shane DuBay (Committee on Evolutionary Biology) and UChicago Art History graduate student Carl Fuldner have recently published a paper in...
Photo by Matt Wood
Graduate Student Tyler Starr and professor Joseph Thornton determine alternate evolutionary histories
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics graduate student Tyler Starr and professor Joseph Thornton (Ecology and Evolution) have published a paper in...
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...
Photo courtesy of dbHMS.
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...