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Lectures and Symposia

+ Northwestern expert presents lecture on learning and aging

+ Prof. Anne Houde receives $200,000 research grant

Students as Scholars

+ Daryn Cass ’10 wins conference prize, becomes published scholar

+ Research program puts students in medical university’s labs

After Eukaryon

Alina Spivak '08 is currently a 3rd year medical student at Rosalind Franklin University Chicago Medical School. Eukaryon helped Alina learn organizational skills that she later found invaluable at medical school.

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Eukaryon is an award winning undergraduate research journal that publishes the very best of life science scholarship conducted at Lake Forest College within its research-rich classrooms and faculty labs. The Journal is governed, peer-reviewed, and published by an undergraduate editorial board.

2010 Inauguration Press Release

TABLE OF CONTENTS, Volume 6 

Most viewed Eukaryon articles in the past four months

1. "History Tends to Repeat: FMR-1 Silencing in Fragile X Syndrome,"  Joshua G. Haas, Volume 3, February 2007

2. "Oxidative Stress, alpha-Synuclein, and Apoptosis in Parkinson’s Disease," Katrina Brandis, Volume 2, January 2006

3. "A Ride with Listeria monocytogenes: A Trojan Horse," Joshua Haas, Krista Kusinski, Shruti Pore, Solmaz Shadman and Mithaq Vahedi, Volume 3, February 2007

4. "An Unconscious Bias Holds Women Back in Science," Laura Thilgen, Volume 4, March 2008