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The recent graduate’s thesis work led to co-authoring a paper with Professor Jenni Punt and outside collaborators.
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Join us on Wednesday, April 6 for a screening of 'Race Against Drug Resistance' and a talk entitled, 'Antimicrobials as the Drivers of Shigella Evolution in Vietnam', with guest speaker, Dr. Stephen Baker of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam.
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Haverford College welcomes Jon Wilson to its faculty as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology.
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In an essay they co-authored for a new book, Professors of Biology Jenni Punt and Philip Meneely, and President Stephen Emerson, look at Haverford's focus on undergraduate research, and the College's unique Superlab course, as a way to foster future biomedical investigators.
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Haverford College is the unlikely setting for a new romance novel that features a biology professor as a lovestruck heroine. Author Abigail Reynolds, a Bryn Mawr alumna, says her familiarity with the campus wasn't the only reason she set her "modern love story with a Jane Austen twist" at Haverford.
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Students and faculty are enhancing their research with new, high-tech instruments purchased courtesy of a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Haverford professors Jerry Gollub and Karl Johnson have co-authored a paper that has been named an "Editorial Selection" at Physical Review Letters Online.
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Two biology majors have Center for Peace and Global Citizenship internships this summer.
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Smith, a University of California San Francisco MD/PhD student in biophysics, is one of fifteen recipients of the prestigious fellowship, which is the nation’s most generous award for young innovators in the fields of applied science and engineering.
Read an interview with Smith
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Berman, who was awarded a Fulbright Research Grant, will spend next year at the Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology studying the formation of neural circuits that allow for vision.
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At the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, seniors Monica Stegman and Maryann Tekverk spent a semester gaining invaluable field and lab experience.
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He will attend with three Haverford seniors: Kate Alfieri, Connor Bischak, and Heather McMahon. They will blog from the meeting for its entirety between their departure on Feb. 19 and their return on Feb. 24. Their blog is one of four official Society blogs during this meeting, which includes approximately 6,000 attendees from around the globe.
Go to the blog.
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Cuesta has been named a Rubin and Sarah Shaps Scholar, honoring his participation in Sloan Kettering's Summer Undergraduate Research Program.
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Figuring it Out: Research and Analysis of Veterinary Medicine on the Island of Nevis
Join Shanina Halbert '13 as she blogs during Winter Break from the Island of Nevis, where she will be interning at a veterinary office.
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Two articles by the Emeritus Professor of Biology, focusing on the history of notable scientific discoveries, have been published this fall in academic journals.
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The instruments, which include three different kinds of microscopes and a high-tech cell sorting system, will strengthen research capabilities for faculty and students in the biology and physics departments.
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Thanks to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yusup Shin '11 and Adolfo Cuesta '10 are interning at world-renowned research laboratories this summer.
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Craig Borowiak (Political Science), Bret Mulligan (Classics), and Iruka Okeke (Biology) have been recognized for their classroom innovations with the Life Cycle of the Student Scholar Award.
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Cecily Moyer '09 and Kara Percival '11 will both spend the summer working as Center for Peace and Global Citizenship Interns
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Lewis is a Professor in Global Health, Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, serves as the board chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, in Canada and is a member of the Board of Directors of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
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Oxford University Press will publish his textbook Advanced Genetic Analysis, which grew out of an innovative course of the same name Meneely has taught at Haverford for more than a decade.
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It's the people, says the biology department supervisor and longest-serving current Haverford employee.
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The grant will help strengthen Haverford's biological sciences by supporting research opportunities, curricular initiatives, technological advances, and outreach programs.
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Biology professor (and Haverford alumna) Andrea Morris, recent recipient of a five-year Career Development Award from NIH, is featured in Science magazine.
Big Science at a Small College
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Welsh is one of six fellows selected for their commitment to social justice and community action.
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Kim is one of six fellows selected for their commitment to social justice and community action.
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On Wednesday, November 28, 2007 6:30 - 8:00 pm in Sharpless Auditorium we gathered for an alumni panel discussion of careers accessible to biology majors.
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Matthew Sazinsky '99, a chemistry professor at Pomona College, has received the Distinguished Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching from Pomona students.
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The University of Wyoming is proud to offer summer research
opportunities to external undergraduate students to engage in research in bioinformatics and computational molecular biology in Laramie. The summer research program will last from May 24, 2010 to August 6, 2010 and will include a stipend of $3500 for the period.
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MURF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
The MURF program aims to increase the participation of underrepresented students (such as African American, Hispanic, and Native American, females who are underrepresented in their discipline, and first-generation college
students) in science and engineering Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. programs and to make Caltech's programs more visible to students not traditionally exposed to Caltech.
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The MIT summer research program in the Biological and biomedical
sciences (MSRP Biology) is a 10-week training program for highly
motivated undergraduate sophomores and juniors who will greatly
benefit from an intensive research experience at a top notch research
institution.
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The Hepatitis B Foundation, in a partnership with the Drexel Institute for Biotechnology and Virology Research (DIBVR), provides a unique opportunity for junior and senior college students in its paid Student Research Internship Program. Eligible students spend 10 weeks in this innovative, educational program.
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The Rockefeller University, one of the nation's premier centers for scientific research, invites college sophomores and juniors to apply for a unique summer research opportunity.
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The Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine offers a unique opportunity to work for the summer in a research laboratory at one of the world's top-ranking scientific institutions. The program is specifically designed for students considering a research career in the biomedical sciences.
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Senior chemistry major Adam Subhas participated in a research cruise over winter break with Caltech professor Jess Adkins '90 looking for deep sea corals and mapping the sea surface in the process, as well as collecting oceanic data such as salinity and nutrient levels.
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The Haverford senior will spend next year teaching and living at England's Chigwell School.
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Immunologist Steven L. Reiner '82 has demonstrated how the immune system generates two types of sophisticated T-cells. The discovery, hailed as one of 2007's top 10 breakthroughs, could have applications for new vaccines and cellular cancer research.
Read the full article.
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Fifty Haverford students begin a scientific odyssey as part of the College's outreach to Philadelphia-area secondary students.
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Nuvelo CEO Ted Love '81 speaks about the blood-clot dissolver alfimeprase and stem-cell research with the San Jose Mercury News.
Read the full article.
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Stremlau has been named the grand prize winner and the North American regional winner for the GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists.
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10/30/07 - Haverford senior setter Emily Hinchcliff has been named the Centennial Conference Volleyball Player of the Week for the week ending October 28th.
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Jewell Sparks '92 has balanced her passions for fine arts and cellular biology as a biologist and manager of her own production company, Sparkie Brown Productions.
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Two Haverford students, Anna Klales ’09 and Justin Meyerowitz ’09, are the recipients of Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, awarded annually to undergraduates who plan to pursue careers in science and mathematics.
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Molly Sheehan ’07 , is headed for Africa, to coach soccer and teach English.
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In the past, there has been an assumption that artists who suffer neurological damage will never be able to produce their art in quite the same way again. And though this largely appears to be true, it’s not necessarily a change for the worse, according to Anjan Chatterjee ’80.
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Ethan Roland ’04 is not particularly fond of the word “sustainable” when discussing environmental matters... That’s why the concept of permaculture design—the foundation for his current business venture, AppleSeed Permaculture (www.appleseedpermaculture.com) –appeals to him.
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As much as Amy Arundale valued the cultural and social benefits of her junior year in Scotland, it was always soccer that was at the top of her mind. In fact, it was a running joke among her friends that her penchant for all things soccer made her a rather distracted companion at pubs, where televised matches were extremely diverting.
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When Associate Professor of Biology Jenni Punt presented her research on “T-cell tolerance” to the Philadelphia Haverford Alumni Network (PHAN) Nov. 5, she turned the reins over to her assistants, who elaborated on their hypotheses, experiments, and results, as well as the “real-world” ramifications of their projects.
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Assistant Professor of Biology Iruka Okeke is one of only three international scholars to receive this year’s Branco Weiss Fellowship, traditionally given to researchers in the life sciences whose work can be viewed through a social and cultural context.
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Christen Fornandel, a senior biology major, wins a Fulbright Fellowship for research in Australia.
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We asked faculty from the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities at Haverford to give us their thoughts about the upcoming year by responding to the following question: "What do you think will be the most significant development or trend in your field of study in 2004 and why?"
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As the weather heats up, students and professors alike are abandoning the classrooms, but Haverford College’s new Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center is hardly gathering dust.
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Judith Owen, Haverford biologist and director of the Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center, is the 2003 recipient of an “Excellence in Mentoring” award from the American Association of Immunologists.
The Li-COR Environmental Education Fund has awarded a $49,000 matching grant to Jon Wilson, Assistant Professor of Biology, Haverford College.