The second annual PostBac and Graduate Student Research Poster Competition was held in the SELE Oasis on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. There were 35 entries from 21 labs. It was a great display…
As advertised by the UIC Center for Advancement of Teaching Excellence in this article: Jasmine Hopkins, PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences will present on the Use of templates and guides to…
Research accomplished in the Polikanov Lab at UIC helped their long-time collaborators at Harvard create a new antibiotic, cresomycin, that is effective in mice against several bacterial species that are increasingly difficult to…
Yuri Polikanov’s lab and colleagues from Harvard University have developed an antibiotic that could give medicine a new weapon to fight drug-resistant bacteria and the diseases they cause. The UIC scientists provide critical…
BIOS research scholar Ignacio Escalante Meza’s recent paper about wolf spiders was highlighted in another scientific journal. The paper, published in Animal Behaviour, was covered by the Journal of Experimental Biology.
Congratulations to Rachel Poretsky for contributing to the UIC team that spearheaded one of ten successful NSF-funded Regional Innovation Engines, specifically the Great Lakes Water Innovation Engine. You can read about it in UIC Today here.
New research from Alexander Shingleton and colleagues (including UIC undergraduate student Amirali Monshizadeh) identifies a potential trigger that makes fruit flies stop growing, which has implications for understanding human development. The research is published…
UIC welcomed its latest brood of Peregrine falcons at their nesting-site atop University Hall. Department Head Eric Stabb and Gina Vasquez, a BIOS major and future veterinarian, were present at the traditional banding…
Andrea McGinley Bassett, PhD, has earned a 2023 Silver Circle Teaching award, to be commemorated with an engraving in the Circle Reading Room at the Richard J. Daley library. Winners are chosen by…
Mushaine Shih was awarded 3rd place in the 2023 Image of Research Competition! You can learn more about the contest and winners here. Description: The increased number of the aging human population gives rise…
