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Carlen wins Association for Women in Science award
Early, Losos elected members of American Philosophical Society
Zheng, Le named Beckman Scholars
Women’s Society honors students with awards, scholarships
Diamond, Queller elected to National Academy of Sciences
Sizemore wins 2024 Allen Prize
Wang receives 2024 Stalker Award
Class Acts: Yunfeng Ge Biology student to pursue conservation work in China
Davis wins 2024 Quatrano Prize
Pan wins 2024 Spector Prize
Three juniors selected as Goldwater Scholars
Student spotlight: Angel Lu
Olsen installed as George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology
Levin installed as George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology
The Best Summer Books Of 2023, According To Two Science Writers
Schaal elected to The American Philosophical Society
Chang and Georgiades named Beckman Scholars
Silberman wins 2023 Allen Prize
Abt wins 2023 Quatrano Prize
Rays Wahba and Zhang win 2023 Spector Prize
Tsingos and Ivaturi receive 2023 Stalker Award
Goodenough, McKinnon elected to National Academy of Sciences
Duncan, Dyer celebrate forty fun years building state-of-the-art facilities
Three juniors selected as Goldwater Scholars
Penczykowski, Medley share seed grant to precisely measure St. Louis climate
Garland E. Allen III (1936–2023): Leading historian of biology and social justice activist
Penczykowski wins NSF CAREER award
Penczykowski wins NSF CAREER award
Vierstra receives $1.3 million grant
Yang, a high school student in the Bose Lab, is recognized for outstanding research on creating a new strain of biofuel-producing yeast
SEEDs leaders chosen to attend ecology conference
Norwitz, Oyetunji were Rhodes Scholar finalists
Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures announces first round of funded projects
Herzog installed as Viktor Hamburger Distinguished Professor
Arts & Sciences announces fall 2022 SPEED grant winners
Graduate students recognized for research excellence
Biologist Wang to explore formation and regulation of key organizing complex in animal cells
A Growing Art—Meet the IOTY 2021 Americas Regional Winner
Using electric fish, biologist Carlson to study neuroplasticity and behavioral evolution
Celebrating outstanding faculty and staff
Bose participates in White House summit on American bioeconomy
Emenecker wins prize for innovation in biomedical science
Awardees for graduate teaching excellence announced
ENDURE Program Symposium 2022
Congratulations to the Neuroscience Community Award Winners!
Science research roundup: July and August 2022
Urban bees collaboration wins USDA grant
Radin wins Olympus Image of the Year award for the region of Americas
Science research roundup: May 2022
Women’s Society honors students with awards, scholarships
Class Acts 2022
Wallace wins 2022 Spector Prize
Lowder wins 2022 Quatrano Prize
Dutton wins Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award
Damato wins 2022 Ceil M. DeGutis Prize
Smith wins Switzer Leadership Award
Arts & Sciences announces first cohort of SPEED grant recipients
Science research roundup: April 2022
Champion for equitable education, May honored with Ethic of Service Award
Researchers honored as outstanding mentors
Jez installed as the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology
Four students win Goldwater Scholarships
Board grants faculty appointments, promotions, tenure
Miriam Silberman chosen for Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI)
Science research roundup: February 2022
Chalker Lab and ISP to expand and sustain hands-on science in K-12 classrooms using Tetrahymena
Cesarone named defender of the year January 28, 2022
Herzog to test how cortical neurons, hormones regulate daily patterns of behavior
AAAS names eight Washington University faculty as 2021 fellows
Chalker to expand hands-on science in K-12 classrooms
Levin wins NIH grant
Vierstra receives NIH grant
2021: A year of outstanding accomplishment
Science research roundup: November and December 2021
Arts & Sciences faculty among world’s most highly cited researchers
Irene Antony on her Society for Neuroscience Award, and the importance of undergraduate mentorship at WashU
Q&A with Promega D.O.O.R.S. scholarship winner Miriam Silberman
Recognizing outstanding faculty and staff
A&S Faculty and Staff Awards
Bose awarded Anant Fellowship for Climate Action
Pakrasi to work on positive farming effort
Rising senior Irene Antony accepted into Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
Living Earth Collaborative announces 2021 seed grant recipients
Science research roundup: May and June 2021
Zaher wins NIH grant
Ralph Quatrano will be 2021 Honorary Grand Marshal
Irene Hamlin wins 2021 Stalker Award
Dani Wilder wins 2021 Quatrano Prize
Ella Ludwig wins 2021 Spector Prize
Yehuda Ben-Shahar wins 2021 Outstanding Faculty and Staff Award
Environmental Biology Major Alexis Tinoco featured in Class Acts
Associate Professor Arpita Bose will be a faculty marshal in the graduate student ceremony on May 21st
Meacham, Bose receive university’s first DEPSCoR grant since 1996
Biology department wins HHMI ‘Driving Change’ grant
Association of Women Faculty honors Andreea Stoica with 2021 Annual Student Award
Stroud honored with American Society of Naturalists award
Biology Undergraduate Awards
Washington People: Barbara Kunkel
Biology Faculty Promotions
A conversation with Barbara Kunkel - 2020 AAAS fellow - on being a woman scientist
AAAS names 7 Washington University faculty as 2020 fellows
The future of STEM education: engaging our undergraduates in doing science
Hengen awarded $1.8M to study sleep’s contribution to brain function
Living Earth Collaborative announces 2020 seed grant recipients
Elizabeth Mueller, graduate student in the Levin lab, wins the Nat L. Sternberg Thesis Prize.
Yehuda Ben-Shahar promoted to professor of biology
Ram Dixit promoted to professor of biology
Scientists take part in Ecology publication
Nikhil Aggarwal wins 2020 Quatrano Prize
Lily Xu wins 2020 Stalker Award
Manasvi Verma wins 2020 Spector Prize
Biology alumnus awarded prestigious fellowship for graduate school studies
Four College of Arts & Sciences students named Goldwater Scholars
$1.2M grant to study evolution of Central American lizards
New grant awards in the Biology Department
Arts & Sciences students, alumni among finalists for Skandalaris award
For This Colombian Scientist, Lizards Led To A Life Of Science!
Marshall Wedger, grad student in the Olsen Lab, wins Stephen J. O'Brien Award
Schaal named to agricultural research foundation
Joshua Blodgett named to the Early Career Reviewer Board at Journal of Biological Chemistry
Joseph Jez named Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology
Annual Holiday Cookie Baking and Ugly Sweater Contest
EEPB graduate student wins Afro-Colombian of the year award in the Youth category
Erik Herzog named Viktor Hamburger Professor of Biology
Bose wins new grant for Gateway Science Summer Program
Jez awarded patent for work on engineered plants
L’Oréal USA Awards 11 Female Scientists With Grants to Support Mentorship Efforts Across the U.S.
NSF funds research on nitrogen fixation
Recognizing excellence in teaching and service
Stan Braude: Stories from the Classroom
Haswell and Carlsson receive NSF grant
Undergrad Maya Samuels-Fair wins Goldwater Scholarship
Congratulations PhD graduates!
Mather wins Harrison D. Stalker Award
Hsu wins Spector Prize
Chin wins Quatrano Prize
Biology Professors inducted into National Academy of Sciences
MySci's "From Sun to Food" earns Achieve award
Barbara Schaal to receive NSB Public Service Award
Biology students receive NSF Fellowships
Congratulations to Neuroscience Track major Sabrina Wang on the Switzer Leadership Award!
Jonathan Losos receives 2019 Sewall Wright Award
Vierstra wins Stephen Hales Prize
Three faculty members named microbiology fellows
Annual Holiday Cookie Baking and Ugly Sweater Contest
Biology Chair Joseph Jez elected as AAAS Fellow
Keith Hengen is chosen to be a Next Generation Leader by the Allen Institute for Brain Science
Erik Herzog receives the Award for Education in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
Melissa Evers received the 2017-2018 Arts & Sciences Outstanding Staff Award
Kings of the Eisendrath Garden
Bacteria in a changing environment
Strassmann/Queller Lab receives NSF grant
Jonathan Myers and collaborators awarded NSF EAGER grant
Student Spotlight: Ali Wilkening receives award from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
ISP’s Victoria May honored for work with students
Haussler wins Harrison D. Stalker Award
Chen and Wang share Quatrano Prize
Three biology faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
Jordan Shaker receives this year's Spector Prize
Sally Elgin: Lessons learned in a life of science
Sally Elgin receives the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award
Four Biology Students Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
Yehuda Ben-Shahar awarded $770,000 by the National Science Foundation
The Green Office Program at Wash U
Congratulations 2018 Bunche Scholars!
Haswell elected council delegate for AAAS
Brain power on display at annual WashU Brain Bee
David Kirk receives 2018 Science Educator Award from the Academy of Science – St. Louis
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