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A Rosalind Franklin Medical School expert on Parkinson’s disease joins BIO346 Molecular Neuroscience students as these students role-play world famous neuroscientists at a unique annual scientific research conference on April 28 at Lake Forest College from 8 am - 5:15 pm in Johnson Science Center Room 200 and at McCromick Auditorium. This workshop celebrates the inauguration of Gamma Chapter of Illinois of Nu Rho Psi(the national neuroscience honorary) at Lake Forest College. The public is invited. More » -
Sydni Cole ’12 won first prize at the Chicago Society for Neuroscience (CSfN) meeting’s 10th Annual Undergraduate Poster Competition. Thirty-two undergraduates presented posters from several major midwest institutions, including three other Lake Forest College students. More » -
The Department of Biology celebrates the 2012 edition of Eukaryon, the College’s undergraduate research journal of life science scholarship, Tuesday, March 6. More » -
The Lake Forest College Neuroscience Program, Biology Department, Beta Beta Beta (the biology honorary) SYNAPSE (the neuroscience student organization) invites the public to a lecture entitled “Bringing Neurodegeneration to Heel: Lessons from Lou Gehrig’s Disease” by Dr. Teepu Siddique on February 6 (Monday) at 4:15 pm, in Meyer auditorium (Hotchkiss Hall). A reception will begin at 3:45 pm. More » -
Daniella Brutman `12 and Madhavi Senagolage `12 presented at the national Society for Neuroscience (SfN) meeting in Washington, DC November 12-16, 2011. More » -
The 8th Annual Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is an innovative academic outreach program at the college with the overall goal to educate, educate, and engage on broad issues of Brain, Mind and Behavior. It will take place November 7-12 this year. More » -
On Oct 14, fourteen Lake Forest College students presented biology, neuroscience, psychology, and environmental studies research at the 21st Annual Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics at Argonne National Laboratory. Nearly 300 students, teachers, and scientists attended the symposium, and over 130 students presented original scholarship, from colleges and universities across the nation. More » -
Lake Forest College is pleased to announce that this year’s Volwiler lecturer will be Dr. Charles S. Zuker of Columbia University. His lecture titled “From the Tongue to the Brain: The Biology of Mammalian Taste” also serves as the Keynote Address of the 2011 Brain Awareness Week at the college and will take place on Thursday, November 10 in Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel at 8:00 p.m. More » -
Lynn Switaj ‘11 and Anneliese Szutenbach ‘12 were awarded the best student poster prize among undergraduates presenting at the 70th annual International Meeting of the Society of Developmental Biology held in Chicago (Illinois). More » -
Daniella Brutman ‘12 and Madhavi Senagolage ‘12 have received prestigious awards to attend the 2011 Society for Neuroscience meeting at the nation’s capital and present three quite different types of scholarly undergraduate activities they conducted at Lake Forest College that integrates undergraduate science education with biomedical research, community outreach, science journalism, and leadership. More » -
Eight biology alumni recently published two articles in scientific journals Parkinson’s Disease and ISRN Neurology culminating six years of undergraduate research conducted at Lake Forest. More » -
Keith Solvang ‘11 and Pascal Accoh ‘12 won first and third prizes, respectively, for undergraduate research at the Great Lakes Chapter of the American Society of Pharmaceutical and Experimental Therapeutics (GLC-ASPET) meeting held at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago on Friday, June 10. More » -
A group of thirty-eight science students and faculty took a trip to attend the fourth annual Oliver Smithies Symposium at the University of Wisconsin in Madison on Thursday, May 19. More » -
Fourteen Lake Forest College science majors will begin conducting summer research in May in a variety of medically related areas, including cell and molecular pharmacology, neuroscience, cell biology and anatomy, biochemistry and molecular biology, and physiology and biophysics, through a special partnership with Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFUMS). More » -
Friends and former classmates at Lake Forest College successfully defended their PhD theses in biology within 24 hours of each other. More » -
A Rosalind Franklin Medical School professor and six Lake Forest College alumni joined the students of the BIO346 Molecular Neuroscience course as these students role-played world famous neuroscientists at a unique annual scientific research conference on April 23 at Lake Forest College from 8 am - 5 pm in Johnson Science Center Room 200. The public was invited. More » -
Madhavi Senagolage ‘12 received the second prize for her conference presentation of neuroscience research entitled “Genetic support for endocytosis as degradation route for alpha-synuclein, the Parkinson’s disease protein.” More » -
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The Lake Forest College neuroscience program and SYNAPSE (the neuroscience student organization) invites the public to a lecture entitled “Neurodegeneration: Role of Flow in Motion” by Dr. Puneet Opal on February 23 (Wednesday) at 4:15 pm, in Meyer auditorium (Hotchkiss Hall). A reception will begin at 3:45 pm. More » -
D’Anne Duncan ’04, current Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, will give a public lecture at Lake Forest College on Saturday, December 4 at 12:15 p.m. Aimed at a general audience, Duncan’s presentation, titled “When Cells of the Immune System Hijack the Brain: What Goes Wrong in Multiple Sclerosis?”, will be held in Room 200 in Johnson Science Center. The public is welcome to attend free of charge. More » -
Brain Awareness Week is an innovative academic outreach program for the college community and the public organized annually by the First-Year Studies and neuroscience programs, the departments of biology and psychology, and the neuroscience student organization, SYNAPSE. Dr. Jeffrey Kordower will deliver the keynote lecture on Wednesday, November 10th. More » -
Lake Forest College announces that this year’s Volwiler lecturer will be Sidney Nagel, the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. His lecture, “The Life and Death of a Drop: Topological Transitions and Singularities in Fluids,” will take place at the Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel on Oct. 27 at 8:00 p.m. More » -
Several Lake Forest College students and alumni were among approximately 3,500 ecologists who participated in the Ecological Society of America meeting in Pittsburgh. More » -
“These are exciting and unusual offerings, usually only available at larger institutions,” said Krebs Provost and Dean of the Faculty Janet McCracken.
All of the programs will be available for the fall 2010 semester, and new course offerings will become soon. More » -
The Biology Department at Lake Forest College will publish online its sixth edition of the journal Eukaryon on Tuesday, March 2, and there will be a reception celebrating this collaborative work of students and faculty in the reference area in the Donnelley and Lee Library at 4 p.m. that same day. More » -
On November 13, ten Lake Forest College students presented biology research at the 20th Annual Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics at Argonne National Laboratory. Nearly 400 students, teachers, and scientists attended the symposium, and over 250 students presented original scholarship, from colleges and universities across the nation. More » -
Associate Professor of Biology Karen Kirk is awarded a National Science Foundation grant to study fungal RNA. Lake Forest students will have the opportunity to assist and participate in her research. More »
