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BSI News & Announcements

Ahuna
BSI students attend Society for Neuroscience 2018

Dec. 7, 2018

In early November, BSI sponsored five undergraduate students from CU Boulder to travel to Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2018. The scientific conference, held in San Diego, California, brought together researchers from around the world to share their scientific insights and promote collaboration. “The diversity in topics was astonishing,” said senior...

Oscar and mentor
Former BSI Scholar co-author on recent scientific paper

Nov. 7, 2018

Oscar Whitney, left, and the paper's co-first author, Thomas Vogler, in the Olwin lab. A former BSI Scholar is a co-author on a new paper published recently in Nature. Oscar Whitney, who works in Dr. Brad Olwin's lab in the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB) department at CU Boulder,...

Lior
Summer 2017 BSI Scholar, ecology and evolutionary biology BA/MA candidate, studies biocrusts across the West

Oct. 10, 2018

Pushing Boundaries: Student works to restore fragile veneer of biocrust in the American West Lior was a student in the BSI Scholars program during the summer of 2017, funded through the program to conduct biocrusts field research across the American West with Dr. Barger's lab. Published: Oct. 4, 2018 •...