Science involves constantly learning new techniques, technologies, and equipment so you’re always on the edge of your seat,” says Chrystal Starbird, Ph.D., an assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill. We talked with Dr. Starbird about her journey toward becoming a scientist, the support she received [...]
Dr. Karina Kapusta joined the faculty of Tougaloo College in September 2022 as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. A native of Ukraine, she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physical chemistry from Oles Honchar Dnipro National University in Dnipro, Ukraine. In 2015, she began her graduate studies at Jackson State University in the research [...]
2024 Mississippi INBRE Health Scholar Skye Johnson, Junior Public Health major at Jackson State University, was selected as one of six Mississippi awardees of the American Heart Association's HBCU Scholars Program. Congratulations, Skye! Click here to read more.
By Jon Lorsch I’m pleased to announce that Kenneth Gibbs has been selected as the new director of our Division of Training and Workforce Development (TWD). Kenny is an immunologist by training and is currently chief of the Cross-Disciplinary Pathways Program Branch in TWD. He also oversees the Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent [...]
Three NIH grantees were honored with Nobel prizes in early October, two in medicine or physiology and one in chemistry. The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded jointly to grantees Dr. Victor Ambros of the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and Dr. Gary Ruvkun of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General [...]
Kate Blankenship, a biology senior in the Dept. of Sciences and Mathematics, did a paid summer internship this past June and July in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at Mississippi State University. Kate did her internship in the Computational Mechanics and Materials Lab (CMML) of Dr. Matthew W. Priddy at MSU. She was part [...]
Tougaloo College is thrilled to announce that two of its distinguished students, Ms. Almia Valentine (2024 Mississippi INBRE Research Scholar) and Mr. Aeries Hoskins, have been named 2024 HBCU Scholars by the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Both students are among the six scholars selected from Mississippi, recognizing their [...]
STARKVILLE, Miss., July 23 – Two new projects to enhance research infrastructure and investment across Mississippi were announced at the third annual Mississippi IDeA/EPSCoR Conference 2024 (MIEC24). The conference, co-hosted by the Mississippi IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (Mississippi INBRE) and the Mississippi Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (Mississippi EPSCoR), took place at the [...]
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have initiated a joint research training opportunity through the NSF Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (NSF INTERN) program. The NSF INTERN program provides graduate students with six-month experiential learning opportunities through research internships where they acquire core [...]
Continuing a long-standing partnership of over 15 years, the Mississippi IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (MS-INBRE) served as Major Sponsor for the 88th annual Mississippi Academy of Sciences (MAS) meeting, hosted on Thursday, February 29 - Friday, March 1, 2024, at the Thad Cochran Center on The University of Southern Mississippi's (USM) Hattiesburg campus. [...]
