The Orange County Chapter of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation held their 16th Annual Scholar Awards dinner at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center. The event is held annually to honor both the year’s award recipients and the supporters...

Professor Leslie M. Thompson, Neurobiology and Behavior and Psychiatry and Human Behavior, has been studying genetic disorders of the brain for over 2 decades.  Recent work from Professor Thompson’s Lab, led by doctoral candidate Joseph Ochaba, has identified a new...

Using cutting-edge imaging technology, Professor Thomas F. Schilling, Developmental and Cell Biology, and colleagues, have determined that uncontrolled fluctuations (known as “noise”) in the concentration of the vitamin A derivative retinoic acid (RA) can lead to...

Professor Travis E. Huxman, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will receive the Outstanding University Service award at the 46th annual Lauds & Laurels ceremony.  Professor Huxman is the director of both the Center for Environmental Biology and the Steele/Burnand...

Roderick Seamster, M.D., M.P.H., was appointed the Interim President & CEO of Watts Healthcare Corporation (WHCC), Los Angeles, in October 2015.  Dr. Seamster obtained a B.S. with honors from the School of Biological Sciences in 1982 before pursuing a career as an...

When most of us think of past events we may remember a few important details, but with the passage of time, most of the fine details elude us. However, there are a few select individuals that display a remarkable ability to recall fine details of events that occurred...

On February 27th, the School of Biological Sciences was host to the annual Southern California Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) meeting.  PKAL is the STEM education branch of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).  The meeting hosts, Justin F....

Bessy Varela joined the Biological Sciences School 12 years ago. In her role as Department Administrator for Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, she manages the administrative and financial functions that support the research and teaching activities in the department....

On February 2nd, Dean Frank M. LaFerla held a breakfast for the student athletes of the Biological Sciences School in the dean’s conference room of Natural Sciences II. Treated to a filling breakfast loaded with plenty of protein, the students were congratulated by...

Professor Kim Green, Neurobiology and Behavior, has discovered a new use for the anti-cancer compound, pexidartinib.  Professor Green and his colleagues found that treatment with pexidartinib results in the elimination of the brain’s resident immune cells, which leads...