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Five MCB seniors have been recognized for their outstanding work on their theses. Richard Ng’s thesis garnered the 2018 Lawrence J. Henderson Prize, an annual award given out…
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Doeke Hekstra Chosen as Searle Scholar
MCB and SEAS assistant professor Doeke Hekstra has been chosen as a 2018 Searle Scholar. Each year, the Searles Scholar Program--administered by the Kinship Foundation and funded by…
Believing in Dopamine [Uchida Lab]
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Hopi Hoekstra Elected to American Philosophical Society
Professor Hopi Hoekstra, a faculty member with a joint appointment to the MCB and OEB departments, has been elected to the prestigious American Philosophical Society (APS). Hoekstra is…
Grad Students Earn Fellowships
MCO students Felix Barber and Gal Lumbroso have been awarded prestigious fellowships that will support their future research. Barber, a joint student in the Amir and Murray labs,…
Congratulations to the 2018 Dowling Prize Winner Norma Hylton
Norma Hylton (class of ‘18) has won this year’s John E. Dowling Thesis Prize. This award is given to one undergraduate student each year who has demonstrated exceptional…
Neurobiology Concentrator Will Travel to Colombia Under a Fulbright Research Grant
Neurobiology concentrator Isa DeLaura (‘18) has been awarded a Fulbright Research Grant to support her research in Montería, Colombia. DeLaura will spend next year studying hantavirus, a rodent-borne…
In the Olfactory Bulb, Being Normal Goes Against the Norm [Murthy Lab]
Perhaps the first lesson that we learn in any neuroscience course involves defining the unique properties of neurons. Neurons, we learn, are polarised entities where information flows from…
Jennifer Doudna to Give 2018 Prather Lectures, May 15, 16, 17
Jennifer Doudna will give the 2018 John M. Prather Lectures in Biology. Doudna is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and the Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Professor in…
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