Aixa Alfonso was announced as the winner of a new faculty achievement award from the UIC Office of Diversity, Equity & Engagement. This award recognizes faculty who have made extraordinary contributions to diversity…
Ruixuan Gao’s research of nanoscale imaging of biological ultrastructure has earned him distinction as a 2022 Searle Scholar. Gao, UIC assistant professor of chemistry and biological sciences, is the second UIC scholar to receive…
On April 20th, 2022 the NASA and Historically Black Colleges & Universities/Minority Serving Institutions Spring Technology Infusion Road Tour made a stop at UIC’s Forum to hear about relevant cutting edge research of…
Dr. Chris Whelan was featured in “Some Chicago birds are nesting nearly a month earlier than they did more than a century ago, Field study shows” in the Chicago Tribune on 3/25/22. You…
PhD student Soraida Garcia’s article “Making the Change” was featured in the April 2022 issue of Wildlife Professional! In her article, Soraida shares her experience and provides insight on ways that graduate programs…
The research of Egor Syroegin and Yury Polikanov was published yesterday in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Syroegin, a graduate student, is the first author. Dr. Yury Polikanov, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences,…
Dr. Donald Morrison has been elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology. The Academy, the honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology, recognizes excellence, originality, service and leadership in…
Discover Magazine featured Rachel Poretsky and her lab in a recent article about efforts to monitor COVID-19 using municipal wastewater. Learn more about their work here: https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/scientists-scour-sewage-for-coronavirus-clues
This latest research paves the way for future development of a novel class of antibiotic drugs. Dr. Polikanov and his coauthors discovered how a new compound of this class, iboxamycin, binds to the…
The new Florence Merriam Bailey Award, named for the first woman “associate” of the AOU (1885) and the first woman elected as a Fellow of the AOU (1929), recognizes an outstanding article published in…
