Manyuan Long, PhD named Guggenheim Fellow
Prof. Manyuan Long (Ecology and Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, GGSB) is an evolutionary geneticist who focuses on how new genes originate in organisms. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship this year, selected on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise. His work combines...
Seven UChicago Biosciences students receive prestigious NSF GRFP awards
Seven current UChicago Biosciences students were selected to receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awards that reflect the excellence and broad range of research undertaken by our PhD students.
Biophysical Sciences student Hope Anderson is...
E. E. Just Lecture Janina Jeff, May 13, 2 PM - BSLC 115
Save the date: Dr. Janina Jeff will join us to deliver the annual E. E. Just Lecture on campus on Friday, May 13, 2022, 2pm, BSLC 115. Students are invited to attend a Q&A session with Dr. Jeff at 1pm. ...
UChicago Biosciences welcomes new Dean, Dr. David Kovar
David R. Kovar, PhD, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has been named the new Dean of Graduate Affairs. Dr. Kovar will begin on March 1 in an overlapping role with Vicky Prince, PhD, Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and current...
Easing financial burden for first year graduate students
In 2019, Jane Miller, LAB’77, established the Robert B. Uretz, PhD, Memorial Awards in memory of her father, Robert Uretz, SB’47, PhD’54, and his commitment to graduate education. The awards, which provide financial support to incoming graduate students in the Division of the Biological Sciences...
BDC to sponsor 3 students to attend Bouchet Conference at Yale in April
This year the Biological Sciences Diversity Committee (BDC) would like to sponsor three BSD graduate students to attend the Bouchet Conference at Yale...
NIH awards $170M to national network of universities for Nutrition for Precision Health study
Public Health Sciences faculty member, Dr. Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy is leading the University of Chicago effort to contribute to an ambitious six university NIH research...
RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow 50% more potatoes, rice
Manipulating RNA can allow plants to yield dramatically more crops, as well as increasing drought tolerance, announced a group of scientists from the University of Chicago, Peking University and Guizhou University. In initial tests, adding a gene encoding for a protein called FTO to both rice...
Access to medical radioisotopes spurs new research into disease
UChicago Medicine is the only academic health system in Illinois with an operational cyclotron. A cyclotron is a machine that accelerates a particle along a spiral path. The particle’s energy increases as it circulates through the machine. Once it has gained enough energy, the particle hits a...
Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant Prize awarded to Silas Busch. Farrell, Hur, McIntire and Veseli also recognized
The 2020-2021 Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant Prize for the best performance by a BSD graduate student who is TAing in fulfillment of the Divisional Teaching Requirement was awarded to Silas Busch. In addition, Divisional Teaching Assistant Awards went to Hannah Farrell, Suzy Hur, Erik...