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Bender Receives Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Award

Posted on May 16, 2014 by admin

Congratulations to 2013 NIMBioS REU student Nicole Bender for receiving a 2014 Mathematical Association of America Outstanding Poster Award. Nicole, a senior at Marist College, presented her NIMBioS work “Automatic Detection of Rare Bird Species Using Neural Networks” at the … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Helps Ignite Kids’ Interest in STEM at National Festival

Posted on May 14, 2014 by admin

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. What does math have to do with mushrooms? Hundreds of kids and their families found out by visiting the interactive NIMBioS and University of Tennessee-Knoxville’s “Fungus Among Us” booth at last month’s USA Science and Engineering … Continue reading →

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New NIMBioS Postdocs Announced

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Catherine Crawley

Congratulations to the newly selected NIMBioS postdoctoral fellows arriving this summer. Jake Ferguson is currently a doctoral student in biology at the Univ. of Florida. Ferguson’s project at NIMBioS will be to model the role of seasonality of ecological populations. … Continue reading →

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Poverty and Disease Explored in Essay

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Catherine Crawley

Former postdoctoral fellow Calistus Ngonghala’s essay examining poverty and disease is featured this week in PLOS Biology. Ngonghala and his co-authors explore how coupled models of ecology and economic growth can provide key insights into factors driving the formation and persistence … Continue reading →

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Lend Your Ears to the Sounds of Howls

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Catherine Crawley

Attention scientists and citizen scientists! NIMBioS is supporting a new project that aims to source the crowd for help in analyzing thousands of howls from wolves, coyotes, dogs and other canid species. At the new Canid Howl Project website, volunteers … Continue reading →

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Postdoc Puppeteers: NIMBioS Supports Darwin Day 2014

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS postdocs Clemente Aguilar and Jiang Jiang (pictured incognito, left to right) donned Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace costumes and braved the frigid temperatures on Market Square in Knoxville on Friday to celebrate Darwin Day. The life-sized puppets were … Continue reading →

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Aguilar Visits Howard University, Shares Work on Developing Vaccines for Chagas’ Disease

Posted on November 25, 2013 by admin

The math colloquium at Howard University in November featured computational biology and vaccine development with a NIMBioS postdoctoral researcher as special speaker. Postdoctoral fellow Clemente Aguilar visited Howard’s mathematics department and spoke on: “Using Computational Tools for Accelerating the Development … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Celebrates Diversity in STEM at National Conference

Posted on October 21, 2013 by admin

NIMBioS researchers and staff shared their passion for science this month at the 2013 SACNAS Annual Conference, as well as the many opportunities available to diverse STEM students and faculty at NSF math institutes and biology centers. SACNAS, the Society … Continue reading →

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Tylenol Scares: New Method May Help Make Life-Saving Decision

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Catherine Crawley

“They tell you it’s medicine. They don’t tell you it can kill you.” — David Baumle, father of 12-year-old Davy Baumle who died from acute liver failure caused by acetaminophen. A recent in-depth investigation by This American Life radio program … Continue reading →

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Dolphin Communication on the Menu for Science Café

Posted on September 16, 2013 by admin

NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellow Arik Kershenbaum led a lively discussion on the topic “Can We Talk to Dolphins?” at a Knoxville Science Café last week. All members of the community were invited. “Science Cafés are events that take place in casual settings … Continue reading →

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