Alex Dainis, a Brandeis senior double majoring in Biology and in Film, Television, and Interactive Media, discusses how gender biases affect performance and interest in the sciences in a piece titled XX Scientists at Brandeis on the Life @ Deis blog.
2010 Beckman Scholars
May 20, 2010 By
Brandeis was recently awarded a grant from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation through their Beckman Scholars Program. This grant will support two students each through two summers and one academic year of undergraduate research.
Philip Braunstein and Jessica Hutcheson have been named the 2010 Beckman Scholars. Braunstein (class of 2012) is a Biochemistry major identifying parasite-selective inhibitors of pyrimidine biosynthesis in the Hedstrom laboratory. Hutcheson (2011) is a Biochemistry/Neruoscience major investigating the molecular processes that determine memory in the Griffith laboratory.
Congratulations to the winners!
Brandeis professor and postdoc alumni win Searle Scholars grants
April 21, 2010 By
One Brandeis professor and two of our former postdocs are among the 15 recipients of the competitive Searle Scholars awards for 2010. Nelson Lau, an assistant professor in the Biology Dept., won for his work on “Germline Genome Regulation by Piwi Proteins and Small RNAs”. Katie Henzler-Wildman is a former postdoc from the Kern lab in Biochemistry who now has a lab at Washington Univ. in St. Louis. Katie received a grant to study “The Role of Protein Dynamics in Multidrug Resistance Transport Activity”. David Biron, an alumnus of the Sengupta Lab who is now an assistant professor at U. Chicago, received a grant to study “Understanding Lethargus: The Sleep-Like Behavior of the Nematode C. Elegans“.
Congratulations to all the winners!
