Ryan Ripperdan is an undergraduate majoring in Biological Sciences at the Biological Sciences School. Ryan is on schedule to graduate in Spring 2016 with plans on applying to medical school shortly thereafter. Prior to transferring…
UC President Janet Napolitano created a special climate action fellowship to be awarded to one faculty member at each UC campus for the 2015-2016 academic year. Dr. Steven Allison, professor in the department of Ecology…
The Scientific Research Society (Sigma Xi) is an international honor society of scientists and engineers that has maintained a distinguished history of service to science and society for over 100 years. There are Sigma Xi…
A group of researchers in the Biological Sciences School lead by Drs. Sarah Kimball, the assistant director of UCI’s Center for Environmental Biology, and Travis E. Huxman, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director…
The University of Connecticut will be launching a revolutionary scientific project aimed at helping individuals who have lost limbs or experienced severe nerve damage by regenerating new nerves cells or entire extremities. The project, known…
Dr. Cassondra Williams, a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of professor Jim Hicks in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has published data that sheds new light onto the complexity of the emperor penguins…
Heather Wright is the recipient of an National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L Kirschstein Predoctoral National Research Service Award (F31). The purpose of the F31 award is to enable promising graduate students to obtain…
Dr. James W. Hicks joined the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the School of Biological Sciences in 1992. In addition, Dr. Hicks has served on many departmental, school, and campus-wide committees, including as…
For nearly 20 years, Professor Anthony A. James has focused on engineering anti-disease mosquitoes. His anti-dengue fever models have been tested in cage trials in Mexico. In 2012, he helped show that antibodies that impair the…
Steven A. Frank, Ph.D. is a professor in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Professor Frank’s research utilizes mathematical, computational, and conceptual models to study natural selection and the evolution of organismal design. Professor…