As a new computational biologist at Reed College, I was excited about the prospect of continuing to do research while teaching innovative courses. I’ve written about the research opportunities at Reed, and faculty across campus have received over two million dollars of grant funding in 2014/2015.
The Biology Department just secured two more research grants from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust to investigate neurogenesis in zebrafish (Dr. Kara Cerveny) and discover candidate driver genes in cancer (me!).
Small schools also have an opportunity to play a large role in undergraduate education programs. Another NSF grant was recently awarded to Dr. Suzy Renn to organize a STEM workshop on undergraduate involvement in the NSF’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.
All in all, 2016 seems like it will be another great research year.
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