News: School of Life Sciences

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To discover what's happening with the bighorn sheep population, David Choate must track cougars in the National Desert Wildlife Refuge.

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Microbiologist Brian Hedlund knows from experience just how dangerous a hot spring can be.

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Nora Caberoy on the complicated structures of the eye, treating blindness, and catching tadpoles.

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Meet Brian Hedlund, one of several 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ recipients of the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER Award, the highly competitive grant designed to establish leadership in education and research.

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Meet Frank van Breukelen, one of several 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ recipients of the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER Award, the highly competitive grant designed to establish leadership in education and research.

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An intensive mentorship program for first-generation students places undergraduates in the lab and out in the field. The goal is to inspire students to strive beyond their bachelor's degrees.
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Julienne demystifies microbiology and talks about the road from Durango High to M.D. by way of China.

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Carmen on starving bacteria and the transition from art student to biologist.

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Elementary teachers head to summer school to bone up on science.

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Alumna Daliah (Zodieru) Wachs expands her practice to thousands through satellite radio call-in show.
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Nine students, including a mother of two who after years of working as a dental hygienist received her dental degree and became class valedictorian, are being honored as spring 2012 Outstanding Graduates.

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A new species of scorpions nearly squirmed past a couple of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ graduate students. The story behind the Death Valley arthropod's discovery.