Prof. Hightower received the 2017 CSSI Medallion for his discoveries about Heat Shock Proteins, Thermotolerance and the Proteotoxic Stress Response.
J. Peter Gogarten and R. Thane Papke received a grant from the NSF-MCB/BSF program
(UConn portion: $817,279.-) for a collaborative research project with Lilach Hadany and Uri Gophna (Tel Aviv University) to study “Rare Genes and Alleles in Halophilic Archaeal Populations and Communities”.
PSM’s 2017 UConn-TIP Summer Immersion Fellowship Participants
2 PSM students, Ethan Cope and Alex Gojmerac, were 2017 UConn-TIP Summer Immersion Fellowship Participants, allowing them the opportunity to learn about startups and entrepreneurship during a 10-week immersion program.
PSM student, Ethan Cope, in the New Britain Herald!
Morning Tea with Mr. Darwin
Ken Noll will portray Mr. Darwin at the talk “Morning Tea with Mr. Darwin: Stories of the Voyage of the Beagle.”
MCB Undergraduates present at ASM Microbe 2017
Hannah Guilani and Sabrina Yum-Chan, two UConn students from the MCB course “Microbe Hunters-Crowdsourcing Antibiotic Discovery” presented posters at the 4th Annual Small World Initiative (SWI) Symposium. The SWI Symposium was held in conjunction with the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Microbe 2017 meeting in New Orleans in early June. In addition to presenting their […]
Congratulations to Sarah McAnulty and Allison Kerwin, from the Nyholm Lab, who won the Best Poster Award (out of 120+ posters) at the Gordon Research Conference on Animal-Microbe Symbiosis!
Congratulations to Sarah McAnulty who was awarded the Lerner Gray Grant Memorial Fund Grant for Marine Research through the American Museum of Natural History!
The Lerner-Gray Grants for Marine Research provide financial assistance to highly qualified persons starting careers in marine zoology.
Congratulations to the 2017 graduate and undergraduate student summer fellowships!
These distinguished fellowships are made possible by some very generous donors and are offered on a competitive basis to the most highly qualified students.