Professor Rotjan Awarded Two Grants for Phoenix Islands Research
Biology Department Research Assistant Professor and Lecturer Randi Rotjan has received two grants that will support work in the Phoenix Islands in Kiribati. One grant, awarded by National Geographic, supports fieldwork in the South Seas. Another grant, awarded by the Waitt Foundation, is in support of a documentary of the... More
Professor Davies Awarded Early-Career Research Fellowship
Professor Sarah Davies has been awarded an Early-Career Research Fellowship from the National Academy of Sciences Gulf Research Program. This two year fellowship supports emerging scientific leaders as they take risks on research ideas not yet tested, pursue unique collaborations, and build a network of colleagues who share their interest... More
Professor Cheng Awarded National Institute on Drug Abuse Grant
Department of Biology Assistant Professor Christine Cheng and Assistant Dean of Boston University School of Medicine and Associate Professor (BUMC) Andrew Henderson received a three-year, $2.9 million R61 award from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health to study the effect of opioid use... More
Professor Karen Warkentin Invited to Serve as University Lecturer
Professor Karen Warkentin has been selected to give the University Lecture at Boston University this year. The University Lecture has been a BU tradition since 1950 and highlights the outstanding research of one faculty member from across the university each year. The lecture will be open to the BU Community... More
Assistant Professor Christine Cheng Named BU Data Science Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor Christine Cheng has been named one of BU’s newest Data Science Faculty Fellows! "The Faculty Fellows program aims to assemble a cluster of uniquely talented faculty whose expertise transcends traditional boundaries, leveraging the field’s three methodological disciplines of Computer Science, Statistics, and Electrical & Computer Engineering to... More
Professor Warkentin Gives Plenary Address at ISBE
Professor Karen Warkentin was invited to give the Plenary Address at the International Society for Behavioural Ecology’s biennial conference in August 2018. Professor Warkentin's talk was titled "Proximate and ultimate causes of plastic hatching timing."
Assistant Professor Fuxman Bass Receives Outstanding Investigator Award from NIH
Assistant Professor Juan Fuxman Bass has received a 5-year $2.1 million Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health to study the transcriptional regulation of immune genes and explore how this regulation is perturbed by viral agents. "This grant provides the lab with a lot of freedom to... More
Professors Beffert and Ho Awarded 5-Year NIH Grant for Alzheimer’s Research
Research Assistant Prof. Uwe Beffert and co-investigator Associate Prof. and Associate Chair of Neurobiology Angela Ho recently received a 5-year NIH grant to support the laboratory’s research on the genetic risk factor apolipoprotein E (apoE) and its role in Alzheimer’s disease. The $2.4 million grant will study the role of... More
Senior Lecturer Elizabeth Co Wins Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching
Dr. Elizabeth Co has been chosen as one of two 2018 winners of the Metcalf Award in Teaching. The Metcalf Committee noted that praise for Dr. Co's performance is strong from both students who take her classes and colleagues within the Biology Department. Dr. Co will receive the award at... More
Professor Siggers Wins Prestigious Education Award
BU Biology's Professor Trevor Siggers has been awarded Boston University's 2018 Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Education! As explanation for their choice of Professor Siggers for this prestigious award, the Dean's office notes that Siggers was "chosen by a committee of faculty colleagues from a very strong group of... More