Eating Away a Plastic Disaster
Plastics are polluting the world’s oceans at an exponential rate, but students at Illinois Institute of Technology are working to genetically modify algae that could eat away at the growing problem...
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Summer Stipends Send ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Undergrads to the Lab
Forget the beach. Anam Adil (BCHM 2nd Year) says she’s enthusiastically spending her summer this year working in a lab conducting pioneering cancer research side-by-side with master’s students and Ph...
Minh and Juarez Receive NIH Grant for Predicting Molecular Interactions to Aid Drug Discovery
The research groups of David Minh, assistant professor of chemistry, and Oscar Juarez, assistant professor of biology, have received an award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH/1R01GM127712...
Iva Veseli, Accelerated Master’s Biology/Computer Science Student, Wins National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award
Iva Veseli (B.S. BIOL/M.S. CS 5th year) has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award to pursue her Ph.D. in the biophysical sciences at the...
College of Science Now Accepting Undergraduate Summer Research Stipend Nominations
The College of Science is now accepting nominations for Undergraduate Summer Research Stipends for summer 2018. This program allows undergraduates to do paid research with College of Science faculty...
Juarez Research Group at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Discovers Novel Metabolism in Bacteria Causing Most Common STD
Researchers at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ have discovered how Chlamydia trachomatis obtains its energy. The discovery solves one of the biggest puzzles in the field and opens up new directions for future research...
MBB Student Christian Jones Does Summer Research in Juárez Lab
Christian Jones is a fourth-year student in the co-terminal molecular biochemistry and biophysics (MBB) program from Oswego, Illinois. She has been passionate about drug design for as long as she can...
Biology’s Menhart and Team Honored for Muscular Dystrophy Research
Research by a team led by Nick Menhart, associate professor of biology, in exon skipping, a leading near-term prospect for meaningful treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), was honored at a...
Area High School Students Explore Biology at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ During Second Annual Summer Camp
From analyzing the microbiology of human normal flora to dissecting cow eyeballs, 20 high school students explored aspects of living organisms during the 2017 Biology Summer Camp, held July 10-20 in...