NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program will fund a project that could transform efforts to understand how neurons are wired.

The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is interested in scholars with the potential to bring to their research and teaching the critical perspective that comes from their educational background or understanding of the experiences of groups historically underrepresented in higher education.

Graduate student John Ficklin, Senior Lecturer Sara Lombardi and Professor Gerald Wilkinson will serve on the Council.

In "Dynamic estimation of auditory temporal response functions via state-space models with Gaussian mixture process noise," published August 19, 2020 in PLOS Computational Biology, researchers including Professor Jonathan Simon develop efficient algorithms for inferring the parameters of a general class of Gaussian mixture process noise models from noisy and limited observations, and utilize them in extracting the neural dynamics that underlie auditory processing from magnetoencephalography (MEG) data in a cocktail party setting.

We congratulate Quentin Gaudry, who was promoted to associate professor with tenure; Beth Parent, who was promoted to principal lecturer; and Bill Fagan, who was named Distinguished University Professor. 

Six courses will be redesigned by faculty in Biology.

Danielle Adams, Ricardo Araneda and Emily Bruns will work to transition their face-to-face courses to online or blended-learning courses. 

The title of Distinguished University Professor is the highest academic honor bestowed by the university.

New study by researchers including Professor Emeritus David Inouye shows hummingbirds distinguish colors that combine ultraviolet and visible light. The study was published on June 15, 2020, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Study led by Professor William Jeffery and Principal Faculty Specialist Li Ma identified the first gene responsible for eye loss in cavefish, revealing connection to a human vascular disease. The study was published in the journal Nature Communications on June 2, 2020.