Category Archives: Workshop

Filling the Research Gap: Mathematics of Gun Violence

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Catherine Crawley

Coronavirus is capturing headlines around the world, and infectious disease experts are relying on data and mathematical models to help to curb its spread. Another public health menace capturing news headlines would also benefit from data and mathematical models: the … Continue reading →

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Learning from Failures: Lemon Labs, NIMBioS Partner

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Catherine Crawley

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” That’s the proverbial expression driving new data science workshops organized by NIMBioS and the University of Arizona through a National Science Foundation TRIPODS+X award. The first of two Lemon Labs workshops was held … Continue reading →

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Baba Brinkman’s Different Kind of Beatbox

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS and DySoC (the Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity) along with several UT groups across campus were fortunate to host Baba Brinkman this week for some spectacular educational rap. Baba’s first performance occurred at the end of the … Continue reading →

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Baba Promises to Drop Knowledge via Rap

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Catherine Crawley

We’re very excited to catch Baba Brinkman at the world premiere of his Rap Guide to Culture live on stage next month at a free public event at UT’s Student Union. The New York-based award winning playwright, science communicator, and … Continue reading →

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DySoC Welcomes Renowned Primatologist Frans de Waal

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Catherine Crawley

The Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity (DySoC) at NIMBioS is pleased to host world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal for a talk next month on animal emotion and empathy ahead of his much-anticipated new book, to be published in … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Workshop Inspires New Theme Issue

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Catherine Crawley

A new theme issue published this week in Philosophical Transactions B was inspired in part by the recent NIMBioS Workshop on Evolution and Warfare. “Solving the puzzle of collective action through inter-individual differences: evidence from primates and humans” is compiled and edited … Continue reading →

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Nose Picking and Other Notes from the Microbiome Workshop

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Catherine Crawley

Did you know that nose picking is useful to science? Indeed, the nasal passages have been mined, so to speak, for new insights into pathogens and the microbiome. You can now view the dirty details about this topic and many … Continue reading →

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Prepare to Collaborate! Here’s How to Do It Well

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Catherine Crawley

What does it take to run a successful collaborative meeting? As a NIMBioS participant or organizer of an activity, you will meet and work with scientists from a variety of fields. Cross-disciplinary research can produce exciting results, but it also … Continue reading →

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Workshop to Support Research Collaboration Between Junior and Senior Women

Posted on April 28, 2015 by admin

Yet another barrier facing women in academia is that senior women faculty are less likely to collaborate with junior women. A study in Current Biology found evidence for this in the field of psychology, a field getting very close to … Continue reading →

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Women in Math Focus of Workshop

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Catherine Crawley

Women comprise less than a quarter of the STEM workforce in the US, and they are most likely to leave those jobs compared to men. The story is not much different on the nation’s campuses, where more than half of STEM … Continue reading →

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