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Course Alumni, Faculty, Whitman Scientists Elected to National Academy of Sciences

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Course Alumni, Faculty, Whitman Scientists Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Congratulations to 17 MBL course alumni, former faculty, and Whitman Scientists who were recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” They are: Basbaum, Allan I, University of California, San Francisco Alumnus, Computer-BioMed II, 1980 Boyden, Edward S., HHMI/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumnus, Neural

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Neuroscientist and Nobel Laureate Paul Greengard Dies | The Rockefeller University

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Neuroscientist and Nobel Laureate Paul Greengard Dies | The Rockefeller University

Paul Greengard was an alumnus of the MBL Embryology course (1950), an Embryology course assistant (1951), Whitman Center investigator (1968, 1987), and a faculty member in the Neurobiology course (1985). From Rockefeller University News Neurobiologist Paul Greengard, a Nobel laureate who revolutionized our understanding of how brain cells communicate with each other and contributed to

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Levin Endowment Brings Yale Students to MBL for Research | Yale School of Medicine

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Levin Endowment Brings Yale Students to MBL for Research | Yale School of Medicine

In recognition of MBL’s influence on his career and the opportunities it can offer to Yale medical students, Jack Levin, M.D., and his wife Francine have made a philanthropic commitment at Yale to establish the Yale-at-MBL Initiative for Student Research. From Medicine@Yale Roughly 170 miles up the highway from New Haven, at the southwest tip

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Sydney Brenner, Nobel Laureate and Former MBL Instructor and Researcher, Dies at 92

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Sydney Brenner, Nobel Laureate and Former MBL Instructor and Researcher, Dies at 92

Sydney Brenner, 2002 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, was an instructor in the MBL Physiology course from 1967-1970 and a MBL Whitman Center researcher  (1967-1970, 1988). Among his many contributions to biology, Brenner led a team that described the first complete wiring diagram, or “connectome,” of an organism, the nematode C. elegans. Obituary from

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Students Commission Portrait of Biologist E. E. Just | UChicago Medicine

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Students Commission Portrait of Biologist E. E. Just | UChicago Medicine

Editor’s note, Feb. 2019: The portrait of E.E. Just is now complete and hanging in Erman Hall on the UChicago campus. The portrait was commissioned by a group of students from the University’s Biological Sciences Division. By Angela Wells O’Connor Ernest Everett Just, PhD, spent only three academic quarters on the University of Chicago campus. A professor

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At World Economic Forum in Davos, Support for MBL Research is Voiced

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At World Economic Forum in Davos, Support for MBL Research is Voiced

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Princeton professor and MBL Whitman Scientist Clifford Brangwynne advocated for philanthropy for the Marine Biological Laboratory and other institutions that are discovering and studying marine life. “The technologies of tomorrow come from the discoveries in basic research today,” he said. “The ocean, with its incredible biodiversity —

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The Chicago Principles for Freedom of Expression: An Opinion | Inside Higher Ed

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The Chicago Principles for Freedom of Expression: An Opinion | Inside Higher Ed

By Michael Poliakoff Sigal Ben-Porath’s Inside Higher Ed article, “Against Endorsing the Chicago Principles,” puts the urgent need for uncompromised freedom of expression on a slippery slope. While properly observing that espousing even a clear statement of commitment is insufficient, Ben-Porath rejects the idea of its absolute necessity and thereby risks entirely derailing mainstream efforts

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MBL Alumni are Named Fellows of American Association for Advancement of Science

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MBL Alumni are Named Fellows of American Association for Advancement of Science

Congratulations to several members of the MBL’s alumni community who have been elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a lifetime honor in recognition of their extraordinary achievements in advancing science. New Fellows of the AAAS Sections on Biological Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Neurosciences include: Section on Biological Sciences Holly M.

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Remembering Woods Hole Scientists: Their Final Resting Places | The Hydra Lab

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Remembering Woods Hole Scientists: Their Final Resting Places | The Hydra Lab

Scores of scientists over the past century have considered Woods Hole their second home, and some chose it as their final place of rest. Last summer, students from the Hydra Lab in the MBL Whitman Center created an interactive map of scientists’ tombstones in the Church of the Messiah cemetery in Woods Hole. It’s a

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