IGB faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
Five University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members, including three from the IGB, have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and…
IGB employees honored with Chancellor's Staff Excellence Award
Maeve Reilly
Sixteen academic professionals and civil service staff members, including two from the IGB, have received the Chancellor’s Staff Excellence Award recognizing exceptional…
Alison Bell awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Jodi Heckel
Two University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors have been awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships.
This year’s Illinois fellows are evolution, ecology and behavior…
Taher Saif elected to National Academy of Engineering
Lois Yoksoulian
Taher Saif (M-CELS/RBTE), the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, has been elected to the …
Zeynep Madak Erdogan Receives American Association for Cancer Research Award
Jonathan King
Cancer Center at Illinois Associate Director for Education and Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer, Zeynep Madak Erdogan (CGD/GSP/EIRH) received the…
Eight Illinois scientists rank among world's most influential, five from IGB
LOIS YOKSOULIAN
Eight researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have been named to the 2023 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list, with five from the IGB. The list…
Winners of the Center for Indigenous Science Scholarship announced
Ananya Sen
The Center for Indigenous Science is a collaboration between the American Indian studies program and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. The Center aims to…
Long receives honorary doctorate from University of Essex
Allie Arp
“I have been lucky enough to receive a few awards throughout my career, but none is more special to me than this.”
The founding plant scientist at the University of…
Shannon Sirk wins NIH Trailblazer Award
Bethan Owen
Professor Shannon Sirk (MME) received the NIH NIBIB R21 Trailblazer Award for her ongoing work in engineering both microbes and antibodies for human therapies. This three-…
