Calit2 launches prize program to encourage bioinformatics research by UCSD undergraduates
... the new bioinformatics awards will encourage more undergrads to commit not only to doing research in this field, but also to embarking on a career of publishing and academic advancement." The undergraduate research symposium which Eskin hopes to turn into a quarterly event is targeted at undergraduates from...Snakes' virtual glasses, leopard spots and all-optical transistors
... pencil and paper, according to a study of physics undergrads at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. While a comparison with longer format tests showed that multiple-choice questions were roughly as good at evaluating students' relative performance, there are additional benefits to eliminating calcula...Book explores history, causes of allergy and asthma epidemic
...lnerable to asthma," he says. Students, a mix of undergrads and grads, have been studying issues of disease ecology this semester in Mitman's class on the history of environment and health. "We have been exploring the history of disease in shaping our changing perceptions of, and our relationships to, the e...