What Can Bees Teach Us About Community?
Transcript Assistant Professor of Biology Matthew Smith: I'm coming in with a research education perspective. We're partnering with folks in the energy and sustainability department of Illinois Tech...
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Playing Molecular Tetris to Help Improve the Lives of Millions
Cholera is an acute gastrointestinal disease that produces rapid dehydration and affects millions of people around the globe, mostly children. This threat has been made even more dire in recent...
A Prehistoric Approach to Studying Traumatic Brain Injuries
As the old saying goes: if you want to make an omelet, you’ve got to break open some eggs. For Illinois Tech Professor of Biology and Biomedical Engineering Joseph Orgel, the prospect of discovering...
Can You Turn a Mouse into a Mammoth?
Imagine a world where once-extinct species roam the Earth again. That sounds a lot like something from Jurassic Park, right? Thanks to a groundbreaking achievement by biologists in Texas, the woolly...
Blue Bee Baffles Biologists
When you think of a bee, what do you picture? If the image in your mind was of a blue insect doing handstands, you may be envisioning the world’s newest species of bee: Andrena androfovea. After...
Lewis College Welcomes Four New Faculty Members
Lewis College of Science and Letters is proud to introduce four new faculty members who join their respective departments ready to make a lasting impact on their students and advance their fields of...
Creating a Buzz
What can bumblebees teach us about the link between individuality, group behavior, and the brain? For Matthew Smith, who joined Illinois Institute of Technology as an assistant professor of biology at...
Lewis College Welcomes Three New Chairs
Lewis College of Science and Letters at Illinois Institute of Technology welcomed three new department chairs to their faculty at the beginning of the 2023–24 academic year. With a wide range of...
Getting to the Heart of the Problem: New Research Aims to Understand Cardiac Conditions
When it comes to keeping hearts pumping, Illinois Institute of Technology Research Assistant Professor Weikang Ma continues to show that he is prepared to make a significant impact. Ma has published a...
Illinois Tech Professors’ Paper Challenging Classical View of Muscle Contraction Could Lead to New Cardiac Treatments
CHICAGO—February 1, 2023—In a newly published paper, a team including two professors from Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) have reported a new mechanism for muscle contraction that...