New Grant Aims to Boost STEM Teacher Education

New Grant Aims to Boost STEM Teacher Education

An interdisciplinary team of UCI faculty and staff led by School of Biological Sciences Associate Teaching Professor Jessica Pratt was recently awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support STEM teacher preparation through...

Faculty Retirements 2020

Faculty Retirements 2020

Please join the School of Biological Sciences in sending our best wishes to Professors John Avise, Michael Cumsky, David Gardiner and Donald Senear on their retirement from UCI. Each one of them has dedicated countless hours to help propel Dunlop School to its current...

New Training Program in Substance Use and Use Disorders 

New Training Program in Substance Use and Use Disorders 

Neurobiology and Behavior Chair Marcelo Wood will serve as director on a new institutional training grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse: a division of National Institutes of Health (NIH). Joining Professor Wood is School of Medicine Professor...

New Evidence for a Dynamic Metallocofactor During N2 reduction

New Evidence for a Dynamic Metallocofactor During N2 reduction

Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Professors Yilin Hu and Markus Ribbe have been delving deep into the field of bacterial nitrogenase and related systems. In a recent study published in Science, the researchers report new structural and mechanistic insights into...

Exploring the Neuromuscular Connection

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Associate Professor Monica Daley, along with Kiisa Nishikawa, her collaborator from Northern Arizona University, have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study muscle physiology and mechanical function. The goal of...

2020 ICTS Pilot Studies Award Recipients

2020 ICTS Pilot Studies Award Recipients

Congratulations to Developmental and Cell Biology Professor Lee Bardwell and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Associate Professor Olga Razorenova on receiving 2020 Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS) Pilot Study awards. The awards are designed to...

New Leadership in Dunlop School

New Leadership in Dunlop School

On behalf of the Dunlop School family, we would like to send warmest congratulations to our new faculty leadership. Neurobiology and Behavior Professor Karina Cramer has been appointed the new associate dean for academic personnel; Professor Kavita Arora will now...