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Application Deadline:  January 15, 2011!!!  Click for details and application. Continue reading »

The Ph.D. program in Neuroscience within the Princeton Neuroscience Institute…Fall 2011 will see the third generation of students enrolling in this relatively new Ph.D. program. We enrolled spectacular students in our first two years, and we are again seeking the most highly motivated and creative students. Innovative coursework. Continue reading »

Summer School Exchange Program at the Institute for Molecular Pathology and Boehringer Ingelheim for undergraduate students interested in the life sciences. The first year of the summer school has already passed, but the application deadline for 2011 will be this coming February and the school runs from the beginning of… Continue reading »

The laboratory of Dr. David Pellman at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School has an opening for a research technician to begin in the summer of 2011. The lab works on two interrelated areas: the cell cycle control of mitosis and the relation between genome stability and cancer. The… Continue reading »

The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory has established programs for undergraduate education to enhance scientific training in the biological sciences. MDIBL provides the highest quality training for undergraduate students considering careers in research or medicine. MDIBL is a highly collaborative, collegial, and informal research environment, where students and scientists design… Continue reading »

The Beyond Traditional Borders initiative at Rice University is launching a new undergraduate Global Health Technologies design competition on April 8 & 9, 2011 The Global Health Technology Challenge Identify a challenge in delivering health care in the developing world and design a technology to solve the problem. Continue reading »

Summer 2011 Undergraduate Internships at the Institut Pasteur for US citizens.  The internships are a unique chance for undergrads to work in biological labs over the course of the summer…in Paris at the world-recognized Institut Pasteur!  Click for application information.  Deadline to apply is December 17th. Continue reading »

Professor Swoap of the Biology Department publishes a paper in The Physiologist. http://www.the-aps.org/careers/careers1/mentor/LiberalArtsCollege.htm… Continue reading »

Jonathan Snow, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology at Williams College, received his B.A. from Williams College in 1996, after which he completed his graduate studies at UCSF and his post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School on the effects of transcriptional regulation in immune system development.  He decided to come back… Continue reading »

The Biology Department at Williams College, a premier liberal arts college with a long-standing tradition of excellence in the sciences, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin July 2011. Continue reading »

The College seeks a Temporary Laboratory Instructor to teach a lab for Biology 205: Animal Physiology for the spring semester; January 28, 2011 through May 13, 2011. Reporting to the department chair, the Instructor will teach one laboratory section once per week from 1pm to 4pm, and will spend ~1… Continue reading »

The University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center (UNDERC) and the Department of Biological Sciences are currently accepting applications for these programs. Continue reading »

Details to follow.  For more information regarding Andy Bass, visit his research webpage at http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/basslab/Home/Home.html… Continue reading »

We invite the best students to apply for our NIH/NCI-funded Pediatric Oncology Education (POE) Program. The program offers a unique opportunity for students preparing for careers in the biomedical sciences, medicine, and pharmacy to gain biomedical and oncology research experience. Continue reading »

Joan Edwards Publishes Research on Vortex Rings in Plants Continue reading »

National Institutes of Health Award Steven J. Swoap $325,304 Research Grant Continue reading »

As of April, Williams will offer new majors in environmental science and environmental policy. Read the full article: http://www.williams.edu/admin/news/releases/1991/… Continue reading »

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year grant to Professor Lois Banta for research on a soil bacterium. Read the full article: http://www.williams.edu/admin/news/releases/1986/… Continue reading »

Williams College Seniors Lisa Chu and Ben Iliff received David S. Bruce Awards for undergraduate physiology research. Read the full article: http://www.williams.edu/admin/news/releases/1963/… Continue reading »