Hot off the presses (electronically speaking) – another issue of Science Cafe is available. This is the on-line newsletter, created and written by BIOS graduate students. Their website states, “The graduate students from…
Stephanie Chancellor, Ecology and Evolution graduate student, is quoted in an article about her research on the gloomy octopus in Popular Science. Chancellor is part of a research team that discovered a second site in Jarvis…
The Department of Biological Sciences is now accepting applications for an open Assistant Professor, Neuroscience position. All who are interested can apply at this link. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION, NEUROSCIENCE University of Illinois at Chicago The…
Som Ale, Clinical Assistant Professor, was interviewed by BBC on the status of world snow leopard population which is being hotly debated. Ale argues for the “endangered” designation against those snow leopard experts…
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…