Phillip Rivera, Assistant Professor of Biology, recently received the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) Rising Star Award for his research on biological factors which impact memory. This award includes a grant for approximately $33,000 to use towards this research. Congratulations on your award, Phil!
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Jennifer Blake-Mahmud receives new National Science Foundation award
Jennifer Blake-Mahmud, Assistant Professor of Biology, recently received a National Science Foundation award for $501,356. The project is titled BRC-BIO: The transcriptomics of environmentally-controlled differentiation into male or female in plants. This project will research a special group of plants that exhibit separate males and females – those for which the environment controls the expression …
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Erika Calvo-Ochoa receives International Brain Research Organization Rising Star Award
Erika Calvo-Ochoa, Assistant Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, recently received the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) Rising Star Award for her research on the neurodegeneration and regeneration of the zebrafish nervous system. This award includes a grant for approximately $28,000. In celebration of this achievement, our colleagues in Public Affairs and Marketing issued a press …
Kelly Ronald and Natalia Gonzalez-Pech receive new National Science Foundation award
Kelly Ronald, Assistant Professor Biology, and Natalia Gonzalez-Pech, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, recently received a National Science Foundation Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO) award for $502,043. The project is titled BRC-BIO: The effects of nanoparticle matter in air pollution on a sentinel species: House sparrows as the new Canary in the …