Aug 2 2021 – Keck Professor Patrick Ferree Receives NSF Grant to Study a “Selfish” Chromosome
https://www.pitzer.edu/communications/2021/08/02/keck-professor-patrick-ferree-receives-nsf-grant-to-study-a-selfish-chromosome/
June 7 2021 – Bird Pairs Practice Mind-Control to Create Dovetailing Duets
https://www.pitzer.edu/communications/2021/06/07/bird-pairs-practice-mind-control-to-create-dovetailing-duets/
Sep 22 2020 – Keck Science Prof. Tang awarded National Institute of Health grant to expand student research
Prof. Zhaohua Irene Tang has been awarded a $412,415 National Institutes of Health grant to study cancer and other disease prevention and expand undergraduate research opportunities at CMC and the W.M. Keck Science Department. The NIH grant comes through the Academic Research Enhancement Award program, which is offered to institutions that do not traditionally receive […]
Sep 22 2020 – Professor Nancy S.B. Williams on the frontiers of inorganic chemistry curriculum
Kicking off the 2017-2018 academic year with a $1.11 million grant might be an educator’s dream. Professor Nancy S.B. Williams and a cohort of 10 faculty members from liberal arts colleges around the nation are finding out how that feels thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation awarded last month. Williams, Associate Professor […]
Sep 22 2020 – Keck Science chemistry Prof. Anna Wenzel receives mentorship grant to support undergraduate research
Anna Wenzel, associate professor of chemistry at Claremont McKenna College and chair of the chemistry division in the Keck Science Department, has received a prestigious grant to provide mentorship this summer that will support the ongoing research of Ellen Berkley ’18. According to Wenzel, Berkley’s research concerns the [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement of allyl vinyl ethers, the […]
Sep 22 2020 – CMC students co-author Current Biology paper on a male-killing bacterium
It’s not every day that college undergraduates author an article published in a leading science journal. But that’s just what happened for CMC seniors Becky Cheng ’17 and Nitin Kuppanda ’17 last spring. They did the heavy lifting on a Current Biology paper about a bacterium that attacks and kills only males of a certain fruit fly […]