Stories about "endowed professorships"
Professor of Biology April Hill in her Carnegie Science Lab, Room 404, training two "new scientists." 鈥淔or me, it鈥檚 like being a coach," she says. Names forthcoming.The two students in the lab with Hill are Sara King 鈥�21 of Newton Center, Mass., and Jasmine Nutakki 鈥�21 of Augusta, Maine. Hill says: 鈥淭hey were learning to use a technique called the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify genes from freshwater sponges. Both students (and some others) will be working over short term on a project funded by my NSF grant to study the gene networks involved in animal:algal symbioses. In this case, the animals are sponges and the algae are Chlorella.鈥澛�
Hill and Wageners team up to ensure that all STEM students thrive at 乐播传媒

Thursday, May 2, 2019 1:57 pm

Students in science and math are entitled to thrive, not just survive, says April Hill, the Wagener Family Professor for Equity and Inclusion in STEM.

Cheer the Chairs: Brian Ruppert appointed to Hirasawa Professorship

Thursday, May 17, 2018 6:54 pm

Joining the 乐播传媒 faculty in 2017鈥�18, Professor of Asian Studies Brian Ruppert is the new Kazushige Hirasawa Professor of Japanese Studies.

Cheers for the Chairs: Holly Ewing appointed to Johnson Professorship

Monday, May 7, 2018 3:35 pm

Ewing's research, often with student collaborators, investigates the interconnections among atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic ecosystems.

Cheers for the Chairs: Dykstra Eusden ’80 appointed to Whitehouse Professorship

Wednesday, May 2, 2018 11:56 am

Eusden is an intrepid field scientist who brings his students into the world so they can see, discover, learn from, and record geologic history.