José L. Marrero-Rosado ’17 works with team analyzing chemicals in lake
Research Team Probes Health Effects of Onondaga Lakebed Sediment September 2, 2016
A team of researchers from Syracuse University, SUNY Upstate Medical University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry has received a $15,000 grant from the Hill Collaboration on Environmental Medicine to extend for a third year its research into the toxic potential of Onondaga Lakebed sediment.
High School Outreach – Lessons from the Fishbowl: Solvay High School Students Get Hooked on Zebrafish at Syracuse University March 23, 2015
Dr. Kate Lewis has led this local outreach program for the past four years, hosting dozens of high school students from the city of Syracuse and Central New York. Continue Reading
Scientist Is Recipient of $1.6 Million NIH Research Grant June 20, 2014
Kate Lewis, an associate professor of biology in The College of Arts and Sciences, has added yet another award to her already extensive list of accolades. Lewis, who earlier this year was awarded a research grant by the Human Frontier Science Program Organization, just received a $1.6 million RO1 research grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH). Lewis will use the money to study how particular types of nerve cells, called interneurons, are specified in the spinal cord.
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Biologist Awarded Prestigious Research Grant April 10, 2014
To say the competition for the 2014 International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) Research Grants was fierce would be a massive understatement. In fact, when the process began more than a year ago, 844 letters of intent were submitted from researchers all over the world. Applicants went through a rigorous year-long selection process and when all was said and done, only 34 submissions were selected to receive awards. Ten awards were given to Young Investigator teams, while 24 program grants were handed out. Among this year’s program grant recipients is an intercontinental team, consisting of Katharine Lewis, associate professor of biology in The College of Arts and Sciences; Claire Wyart of The French Brain and Spine Institute; and Aix Marseille University’s Patrick Delmas.
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High School Outreach – Science From a Collegiate Perspective March 21, 2013
Henninger High School students spend an afternoon as college developmental biology students. The event , hosted by the Department of Biology in SU’s College of Arts and Sciences and organized by Katharine Lewis, associate professor of biology.