Engineer Willie Hobbs Moore (1934-1994) was the first Black woman to receive a PhD in physics. Born in in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Moore began her undergraduate degree at...
In 1889, Alfred Oscar Coffin became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in biological sciences. Coffin was born in the small town of Pontotoc Mississippi in 1861 and...
MB&B faculty and Assistant Professor of Therapeutic Radiology Luisa F. Escobar-Hoyos, PhD, was selected as one of seven recipients of this year’s Damon Runyon-Rachleff...
Congratulations to Liz Vellai for winning 2nd prize in the 2021 Winter Recipe Roundup contest for her entry Giant Skillet Cinnamon Roll with Orange Cream Cheese Glaze. Liz...
Kirsten Reimer, an MB&B graduate student in Karla Neugebauer’s group, recently published a study in Molecular Cell which found that co-transcriptional splicing of pre-...
Dr. Tara Alpert, a former MB&B Ph.D. student, identified the first two cases of the B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 to be reported in the state of Connecticut. Dr. Alpert,...
A multi-institutional and diversity-focused conference hosted this past week showcased the work of two MB&B post-doctoral researchers. Gamze Gursoy of the Gerstein Lab...
