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Revelations from Scripps College’s Class of 2025
By Lauren Mar ’25 When the Scripps campus reopened its doors post-shutdown in August 2021, it welcomed the bright-eyed class of 2025. While the facilities and custodial teams had been […]
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Professor Diane Thomson Receives $345K National Science Foundation Grant
Associate Professor of Chemistry Ethan Van Arnam and his lab have been awarded a three-year, $400,000+ R15 grant from the National Institutes of Health.
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The Academic Minute Podcast Takeover: Patrick Ferree
Associate Professor of Biology Patrick Ferree talks about “how certain chromosomes selfishly hijack reproductive development to gain a transmission advantage” for his episode of Scripps’ takeover of The Academic Minute podcast.
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Professor Tessa Solomon-Lane Awarded CAREER Grant by National Science Foundation
Professor Tessa Solomon-Lane has been awarded a $929,414 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant by the National Science Foundation.
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In the Media: Tessa Solomon-Lane Published in Hormones and Behavior
Assistant Professor Tessa Solomon-Lane has coauthored a paper proposing a more diverse framework for researching biological sex.
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The Alum Behind the COVID-19 Vaccine: Dr. Rachel Presti
Last July, Dr. Rachel Presti ’94 made the news when she became a principal investigator on large-scale phase-3 vaccine trials that enrolled thousands of participants from around the world to determine whether newly developed vaccines could prevent COVID-19.
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