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University of Illinois Professor Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Gutgsell Endowed Professor Stephen P. Long to be member of UK’s National Academy of Science
University of Illinois Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Crop Sciences and Plant…
Dean's Award for Excellence in Research Awarded
Saurabh Sinha, Associate Professor of Computer Science and member of the Gene Networks in Neural & Developmental Plasticity research theme, has been selected for the Dean's…
Bruce Fouke
Bruce Fouke (Biocomplexity, Energy Biosciences Institute) received the 2013 Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the 2013 LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence…
Student Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award
Graduate student Brandon Burkhart, chemical biology, who is a member of Professor Doug Mitchell's lab was recently awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National…
Gene Robinson
Gene Robinson, IGB Director, has been elected by the Animal Behavior Society as the 2013 Distinguished Animal Behaviorist. One of the Society's most important marks of…
Gene Robinson elected to NIMH Council
IGB Director Gene Robinson has been elected to the National Advisory Mental Health Council (NAMHC) of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The NAMHC advises the…
Stephen Long
Stephen Long has received the Marsh Award for Climate Change Research by the British Ecological Society, an annual award recognizing outstanding contributions to climate change…
University of Illinois receives grant to study ozone resistance in corn
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a five–year, $5.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop ozone-resistance in corn. These…
Doug Mitchell
Doug Mitchell (Mining Microbial Genomes) was named one of Genome Technology magazine's Seventh Annual Young Investigators for his work in toxin biosynthesis. Nominated by…