Professor Donald Morrison has been named University Scholar for 2016-2017. This recognition comes with a $15,000 per year award, for three years, for his demonstrated excellence and to show the University’s commitment to…
Professor Brian Kay has been named UIC Innovator of the Year. The Inventor of the Year Award honors an outstanding innovator or team of innovators at the University of Illinois at Chicago who through their…
The National Science Foundation’s MCDBLOG featured Professor David Stone and his research group in a blog post entitled “Sharing Science: Cellular Polarization in Yeast”. It details their recent discovery of mechanisms that underlie…
Commencement for LAS students was held on Sunday, May 8th. 316 students graduated with a Biology Major, 86 with Distinction and 19 with Highest Distinction. In addition, 97 BIOS majors graduated in December.…
First year BIOS graduate student Jarrad Hampton-Marcell is the only Ph.D. candidate among scientists named as finalists for a citizen-science grant sponsored by uBiome. The winner will be selected by public voting, which ends…
BioS graduate students received awards for excellence in teaching and research achievement at the annual Biology Graduate Student Recognition Day held on April 21, 2016. A comprehensive booklet of achievements including fellowships, publications,…
UIC issued a press release on the research done by Professor Don Morrison and his colleagues on the metabolic pathways in the bacterial cell that must be activated for the bacteria to become “competent,”…
Alan Molumby, Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of the Prairie, has won his fourth Silver Circle. Silver Circle awardees are selected by poll of graduating UIC seniors. Once awarded, a recipient must wait 3…
Steve Sullivan, E&E graduate student and curator of urban ecology for the Chicago Academy of Sciences, commented on WBBM radio about the plight of migratory birds and the new photographic exbhit on the…