Divisional Academic Ceremony Awards
Once a year a committee of faculty reviews dissertations nominated by the graduate programs for consideration to be designated the best dissertation in the Biological Sciences Division. Alex White (Ecology and Evolution) received the 2018-19 award, announced at the Divisional Academic Ceremony...
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Graduate student in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology receives 2019 Wayne C. Booth Prize
Brooke Weigel, PhD candidate in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology has been honored as a recipient of 2019 Wayne C. Booth Prize. The award is given to graduate students for outstanding instruction of undergraduates.
Weigel shares her teaching perspective: "The most rewarding teaching...
Ecology and Evolution alum checks on Chicago's environmental plan for 2020
The Chicago Climate Action Plan, created by Mayor Richard M. Daley, has many ambitious actionable goals to create a better environment for the city of Chicago. Alison Anastasio, PhD, Ecology and Evolution 2009, learned of the plan and became interested in the research and planning. She went on...
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Olaf Schneewind, the Louis Block Professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology, 1961-2019
Olaf Schneewind, the Louis Block Professor and chair of the Department of Biology, passed away on May 26, 2019 at the age of 57 after battling cancer.
Schneewind is known for his work on Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus anthracis...
Zeresenay Alemseged co-authored a new study about ancient humans
Australopithecus sediba, hominin fossils found in Mapala Cave in South Africa, have long been thought to be the distant ancestor of humans. Over time this became controversial when it was discovered that these bones were 800,000 years younger than the first Homo.
After years of...
UChicago Biosciences alum elected to National Academy of Sciences
Congratulations to UChicago alum Susan Alberts PhD '98 (Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke) who has been elected to the National Academy of...
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Two UChicago Professors find genetic link that leads to solutions for arsenic toxicity
Two UChicago faculty members, Brandon Pierce (Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences and Human Genetics), along with Habibul Ahsan Louis Block...
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Ecology and Evolution Professor and Co-Director of the Microbiome Center stays focused on broder world of microbes
The Microbiome Center is a group of scientists dedicated to learning about the world of microbes. Originally founded by the University of Chicago, The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and Argonne National Laboratory the group continues to focus on it's founding ideals.
UChicago's...
Biotech adopts tech's popular coding boot camp model
UChicago alum Josiah Zayner PhD '13 has created a new program to train non-biotech students to perform entry level biotech jobs. Zayner's program mimics the tech world's coding bootcamps, which train people to perform tech entry level jobs in an intensive over several months. The tech industry...
Thomas Nagylaki, Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolution, 1944-2019
On February 10, 2019, we are sad to report that Thomas Nagylaki passed away due to liver disease complications. Dr. Nagylaki, professor emeritus, worked in the Department of Ecology and Evolution and was a member of the Committee on Genetics, Genomics &Systems Biology.
John Easton...