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Marie Maynard Daly, Ph.D. (1921-2003)
February 17, 2021
Marie Maynard Daly, Ph.D. (1921-2003) was a biochemist known for her pioneering studies of nuclear proteins and her work on the relationship between diet and heart disease....
Joan Steitz
February 17, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Joan Steitz for receiving the 2021 Wolf Prize in Medicine. The international Wolf Prize has been awarded since 1978 to outstanding artists and...
Willie Hobbs Moore & Edward Bouchet
February 11, 2021
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...
Alfred Coffin
February 8, 2021
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...
Luisa F. Escobar-Hoyos, PhD
February 2, 2021
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...
Liz Vellali & the giant skillet cinnamon roll
January 19, 2021
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...
Neugebauer lab splicing
January 19, 2021
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-...