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…
Rima Rebiai, first year BIOS graduate student, earned the prestigious Student Research Achievement Award at the national meeting of the Biophysical Society in New Orleans February 11-15, 2017. She was the only student…
Dave Featherstone’s passing has shocked us all. He had a unique viewpoint on nearly every topic and was not shy about sharing it. His commitment to his students, graduate and undergraduate, was outstanding…
BIOS held a breakfast on Monday, November 28th to recognize the following staff and faculty for their service to UIC. Congratulations! Aixa Alfonso 20 years Hormoz BassiriRad 20 years Beth Brand 15 years…
Joel Brown, Professor of Biological Sciences, was quoted in the DNAinfo article, “Black Squirrels Exist In Chicago; Here’s Where To Spot Them”. Steve Sullivan, Ecology and Evolution graduate student and co-director of Project…
Thom Park, Professor of Biological Sciences, is quoted in the October 11, 2016 Science magazine article “How naked mole rats conquered pain—and what it could mean for us.” His photo of a naked mole…