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Eun Ji Chung ’06 Named Biomedical Engineering Society Fellow
Chung’s areas of expertise include molecular design, nanomedicine, and tissue engineering. Her current research focuses on designing targeted treatments for cardiovascular disease, cancer, and kidney disease.
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Ferrin Ruiz ’08 Balances Medicine and Dance
Ruiz credits her commitment to dance at Scripps for helping her stand out in a highly qualified pool of medical school applicants.
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Stephanie Lim ’18 Studies Climate Change in the Alaskan Arctic
Her research focused on understanding the characteristics of algal blooms in order to clarify their role in the carbon cycle.
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Scripps Faculty and Alums Coauthor Paper in Nature
Associate Professor of Biology Patrick Ferree, Emily Yuguchi ’19, Haena Lee ’18, and Salina Teklay ’22 coauthored a paper, published in Nature, on B chromosome behavior in the jewel wasp.
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Through Hands-On Research, Scripps Students and Faculty Hope to Save the Birds
By tracking these birds, taking their measurements, and studying their behaviors, they’ll better understand what factors might be key to their survival as a species.
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Sarah Budischak Co-Authors Paper on Parasite Life Stage Diversity
This data provide context for both host infection risk and the persistence of adult parasitic assemblages, two contexts that are useful in predicting and preventing infectious diseases.
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Daisy Achiriloaie ’24 Earns Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
Achiriloaie has been awarded the most prestigious scholarship in the United States for undergraduates studying natural science, engineering, or math.
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Spotlight on Seniors: Jess Maurice ’22 Advances Understanding of Animal Social Behavior
Jess Maurice ’22 presented her research on the social hierarchies of fish at the Southern California Animal Behavior conference.
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Patrick Ferree Receives National Science Foundation Grant
W.M. Keck Science Department Associate Professor of Biology Patrick Ferree received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study how certain “selfish” genetic elements alter inheritance patterns at the molecular level.
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Spotlight on Academics: Isabela Harmon ’22 and Jessica Maurice ’22 Explore the Social Hierarchies of Fish
For years, neuroscientists have been asking the deceptively simple question: Why do animals behave the way they do? Isabela Harmon ’22 and Jessica Maurice ’22 are working with Assistant Professor of Biology Tessa Solomon-Lane to fill in pieces of this puzzle.
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