Nicole Carter, BMB Alum, Receives NIH Predoctoral Award
The Biology Department congratulates Nicole Carter (CAS ’17) on receiving the Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual Research Service Award. This award allows predoctoral students to have mentored research training while working on their dissertation research. Nicole is currently a student at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, pursuing her PhD in Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology. […]
BMB Alum, Oscar Lam, Receives NIH Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award
The Biology Department congratulates a recent BMB alumni, Oscar Lam (CAS ’20), on his acceptance into the National Institutes of Health’s Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA). This program allows recent college grads the chance to spend one to two years performing biomedical research with NIH, while preparing to apply to graduate or professional degree […]
Biology Alum, Dr. Loren Wold, Featured in Marketplace Tech Story on COVID-19 Testing
Biology alumnus, Dr. Loren Wold (CAS ’97), was featured in a Marketplace Tech story on COVID-19 testing. Last summer the Biology Department announced the first ever Dr. Loren E. Wold Research Award recipients, pictured above with Dr. Wold center. This award was established by Dr. Wold, an advocate of undergraduate research and mentoring, to help […]
Graduating Senior, Aria Armstrong, Published in Ecosphere
Graduating Biology CMG senior and SURF awardee, Aria Armstrong, in the Celenza lab is co-author on a recently published article in Ecosphere entitled, “Indolic glucosinolate pathway provides resistance to mycorrhizal fungal colonization in a non-host Brassicaceae”. Armstrong and Celenza collaborated with Drs. Mark Anthony and Serita Frey at the University of New Hampshire on this […]
2020 Biology Department Undergraduate Research Award Winners
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2020 Biology Department Undergraduate Research Award. The Biology Research and Honors Committee gives this annual award to outstanding seniors of any major who are performing research in Biology Department labs. This year’s winners were Rose Zhao (CAS, BMB), Jasmine Clevenger (ENG, BME), and Madison Pacaro (CAS, Biology). Rose conducted research with […]
Biology Graduate Students and Alumni Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
The awardees and honorable mentions for the 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition were recently posted and several Biology & MCBB students were recognized. MCBB Ph.D. student Marisol Dothard, Biology Ph.D. student Zoey Werbin in the Bhatnagar lab, and M.S. Biology student Caroline Fleming in the Rotjan lab were all awarded with a 3-year graduate […]
Professor Primack Recipient of Two NSF Grants
Biology Professor Richard Primack recently received two new National Science Foundation grants. The first grant, “Phenological mismatch between trees and wildflowers mediated by environmental variability and plant invasions”, builds on the observations of Henry David Thoreau, and is a collaborative grant with colleagues from the Carnegie Museum and the University of Pittsburgh. The second grant titled, “The impacts […]
Professor Rotjan Featured in Lab Animal Article
Professor Randi Rotjan was featured prominently in “The quest for an animal model of coral health and disease,” an article in the January 27 issue of Lab Animal, a Nature research journal. The article describes how the temperate coral Astrangia poculata is being studied alongside the anemone Aiptasia as an important and emerging model […]
Professors Gilmore and Davies Awarded NSF Grant for Interdisciplinary Research
Professor Tom Gilmore and Assistant Professor Sarah Davies in Biology have received a four-year National Science Foundation research grant to investigate Transcription Factors in Cnidarian Immunity, Symbiosis, and Bleaching. This interdisciplinary research combines molecular pathway analyses with marine ecology and genomics to better understand immunity and stress responses, which are often impacted by climate change, […]
Fall 2019 Outstanding Biology Learning Assistant Awards
Krithi Gopalan, Khushali Mashruwala, Lydia Simon, and Ben Skross Receive the Outstanding Learning Assistant Award The Biology Department recognized the hard work and innovation of all of our Learning Assistants (LAs) by presenting “The Outstanding Learning Assistant Award” to a group of Biology LAs on December 6, 2019. These students presented a poster that was […]