Four SIB professors are participating in the Team Science Leadership Program offered by the IGB this fall.  The Team Science Leadership Program is a new program being offered by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, consisting of a series of workshops that bring together...

Faculty, staff, and graduate teaching assistants at the University of Illinois, including 11 instructors from the College of LAS, were honored recently for excellence in teaching, mentoring, and advising. These awards, sponsored by the Office of the Provost, are collectively known as the Campus...

Launched in 1952 shortly after Congress established NSF, the Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program represents the nation's oldest continuous investment in the scientific workforce. The program recruits high-potential, early-career researchers and supports their graduate training in science,...

Angel Rivera-Colón, a former graduate student now postdoc in the lab of Julian Catchen (CIS/GNDP), an associate professor in the department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior at the University of Illinois...

The event is created and run by the students of NRES 285: Owl Migration & Education, a class designed not only to teach students about owl biology, but also give them skills in science communication and outreach. The class—currently in its second year—is co-instructed by Joy O’Keefe, an...

The new findings are reported in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. “The idea behind this was to come up with a quantitative framework for comparing a variety of biological puncture systems with each other...