Five Projects to Receive Equipment Funding

Five proposals in the sciences have received funding in the recent Provost’s Major Equipment Competition. The researchers and the equipment funded are: Amy Anderson, pharmaceutical sciences Hi flux crystallography home lab Claudio Carello, psychology 3DEcosync Peter Gogarten, molecular & cell biology Computer cluster David Knecht, molecular & cell biology Confocal microscope system James O’Donnell, marine […]

‘Miracle Worker’ Physician Inspires Gift

Caring treatment provided by a cancer clinician prompted a major gift in support of his research.

Researchers Discover Biological Basis of ‘Bacterial Immune System’

A paper co-authored by Brenton Graveley, associate professor of genetics and developmental biology, is published in the current issue of the journal Cell. The article is one of the first containing data generated by the Health Center’s powerful Illumina Genome Analyzer. Bacteria don’t have easy lives. In addition to mammalian immune systems that besiege the […]

Teams Compete to Build the Best Gingerbread House

Gingerbread houses on display in Rome Ballroom. A gingerbread house decorating contest was part of the winter holiday celebration hosted by the President and the Provost. Photo by Frank Dahlmeyer

New Books by Naples and Shannon

Nancy Naples, The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men (NYU Press, 2009). Naples is a professor of sociology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She co-authored this book with Lionel Cantu, a late assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, an assistant professor […]