Pamela Mertz, professor of biochemistry, and Kristin Procko, associate professor of instruction at the University of Texas at Austin, published an article in the August 2023 issue of ASBMB Today, “Ten Years in the Making: How a community of teachers developed a visual literacy repository.” The article describes the process of developing a public repository of assessments for molecular visualization, funded by two grants from the National Science Foundation, and the community that resulted from the

Nadia Velasco ’25 participated in the Political Science Predoctoral Summer Institute hosted by Georgetown University on June 12-16, 2023. The competitive program offers training for students considering a PhD in political science or closely related field. Participating students meet with other undergraduate students with similar interests and interact with faculty and graduate students from Georgetown University.

Associate Professor of Psychology Ayse Ikizler '07 was recently published in "Biopsychosocial Perspectives on Arab Americans: Culture, Development, and Health 2nd ed. Edition" (Springer, 2023), edited by Sylvia Nassar, Kristine Ajrouch, Flora Dallo and Julie Hakim-Larson. Germin H. Awad, Ayse Ikizler and Amir H.

Daniel Tobiansky (assistant professor of neurobiology) and colleagues recently published an article titled, "Neurosteroids and the mesocorticolimbic system" in the high-impact journal Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 

Brayan Ruiz Lopez ’24 completed a nine-week neuroscience internship program at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University this summer. “It was a fantastic experience,” he said. “I got the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge research and connect with like-minded individuals from all across the country.”

Professor of Biochemistry Pam Mertz served as the lead organizer of the 2023 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) summer education meeting, Transforming Undergraduate Education in the Molecular Life Sciences, held at Suffolk University in Boston, July 27-30.  She worked with co-organizers Odutayo Odunuga, Stephen F.