Teaching Professor Sayali Kukday is one of nine awardees of the 26-27 Open Textbook Faculty Incentive Program funding for BIOS 220, Genetics. The UIC Today article notes “The program encourages faculty to use…
Natalia Ruiz-Vargas (Ph.D. December 2024 in Roberta Mason-Gamer’s lab) won this year’s Irene Manton Award from the Linnean Society which is given for “the best thesis in botany examined for a doctorate of…
Clinical Associate Professor Som Ale has published the textbook “Evolutionary Ecology” along with Distinguished Professor Emeritus Joel Brown and Dr. Tania Vincent, Fishery Biologist, Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The publisher notes:…
Rui Gao, Assistant Professor in CHEM/BIOS, was named one of 2025-2026 UIC Researchers of the Year – Basic Life Sciences Rising Star. The announcement states: Dr. Gao’s research lies at the interface of…
Congratulations to three BIOS graduate students for their 2026 Images of Research. Their images were chosen for the 100 submissions. Mateo Valdiviezo (Keyhani Lab) won 3rd place in the Still Image Category for…
Last week, the research of Rui Gao and lab was published by the prestigious journal Science and featured on the issue’s cover. Dr. Rui Gao is an Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences and…
Biological Sciences welcomes three new faculty to its rosters! Assistant Professor Kevin Boergens joined UIC in 2022 in the departments of Biological Sciences and Physics. His research interests include neural circuit mapping through…
Research by the Polikanov Lab was published in the journal Science this June. Their work reveals the molecular mechanism of one of the most fundamental processes in all cells of all living organisms…
Dr. Kate Warpeha organized the third annual PostBac and Graduate Student Research Poster Competition held in the SELE 4th floor Oasis on Wednesday, May 1st, 2025. Students and postbacs from 20 labs participated.…
Ignacio Escalante Meza, Assistant Professor, received an LAS Diversity Award for his project proposal, “The Eight-Legged Bugs Around Us.” LAS Diversity Awards provide resources for initiatives to promote and support meaningful diversity, equity,…
