Kellen Marshall, E&E graduate student in the Gonzalez-Meler lab, was quoted in the May 24th Forbes.com article “5 ‘Silver Linings’ In Attacks On Federal Science Budgets” written by Marshall Shepherd. She was quoted as…
Thomas Park, Professor of Biological Sciences, led an international team of researchers from UIC, the Max Delbrück Institute in Berlin and the University of Pretoria in South Africa in research that was published…
Chris Whelan, Visiting Research Associate Professor, collaborated with Esther Ng, a second-year master’s degree student in the biomedical and health information sciences program, on her project to illustrate the hummingbird tongue. The resulting poster won…
The department of Biological Sciences honored its undergraduate students at an awards ceremony held in Student Center East on April 28, 2017. Dr. Ray Dybzinski, Loyola University Institute of Environmental Sustainability, was the keynote speaker.
BioS graduate students received awards for excellence in teaching and research achievement at the annual Biology Graduate Student Recognition Day held on April 19, 2017. A comprehensive booklet of achievements including fellowships, publications,…
This year eight graduate students received a Hadley Award in various amounts. Each spring, Biological Sciences holds a competition for Elmer Hadley Graduate Research Awards in support of graduate student research in the fields…
Assistant Professor Ankur Saxena has planned a free one day symposium at the University of Illinois at Chicago entitled ‘Sense’ational Neuroscience: Peripheral to Central and Back. It will take place on Wednesday, April 26, 2017…
On March 14, 2017, UIC News wrote an article about the Northwest Passage Project, “a program that will allow students, researchers, experts, and media professionals to see, first-hand, the changing environment of the Arctic,…
The National Science Foundation Molecular and Cellular Biosciences blog highlighted the meeting that David Stone, Professor of Biological Sciences, is holding here at UIC on July 13, 2017 entitled “Finding Your Inner Modeler.” Here…
Chris Whelan, an avian ecologist with the University of Illinois at Chicago and research associate with the Field Museum, talked about how climate change is affecting birds in an interview with Josh Chamot…