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Clarkson STEM Ed programs reach 250+ K-12 students in Summer 2024August 8, 2024 • Clarkson University News
Can a tiny fish help us cure cancer?July 24, 2024 • Van Andel Institute
MOSAIC scholar navigates a nontraditional pathJune 5, 2024 • ASBMB Today
Feinberg Names 2024 Mentors of the YearMay 31, 2024 • Northwestern Medicine News Center
A Bright Future Lies Ahead In The Next Generation Of LGBTQ+ Healthcare ProvidersMay 30, 2024 • Lavender Media, Inc.
MSTP student explores medical research frontiers in UgandaMay 24, 2024 • Indiana University MD Student News
This MOSAIC scholar’s journey brought her home to share scienceMay 23, 2024 • ASBMB Today
Mount Sinai Hosts PREP Regional Symposium, Bringing Together Scholars to Share Research and Celebrate AccomplishmentsMay 16, 2024 • Mount Sinai Today
This MOSAIC scholar believes in the power of perseveranceMay 16, 2024 • ASBMB Today
From Pandemic to Purpose: Hampton University Grad Shane Taylor’s Ascent to Immunology Inspired by COVID-19May 14, 2024 • Hampton University News
MOSAIC scholar explores enzymesMay 8, 2024 • ASBMB Today
Bakers and mentors help a MOSAIC scholar change her lifeMay 2, 2024 • ASBMB Today
Swapping stethoscope for pipette to understand diabetic retinopathyMay 1, 2024 • ASBMB Today
Notebook scribbles to synthesis pathwaysApril 25, 2024 • ASBMB Today
A Day in the Life of Juliana FengApril 3, 2024 • Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Diné college launches CONVOY program to support Native American students in STEM educationApril 2, 2024 • Navajo-Hopi Observer
Guest essay: Why the National Institutes of Health is important to W.Va.March 28, 2024 • The Dominion Post
Pitt-Bradford alumnus to talk about journey to become Ivy League researcherMarch 26, 2024 • The Bradford Era
NIGMS Director Shares Basic Science Breakthroughs with Lifelong LearnersMarch 15, 2024 • NIH Record
Gaillard Relishes Her Role Supporting ScienceMarch 15, 2024 • NIH Record
A series of happy accidents guided this MOSAIC scholarFebruary 23, 2024 • ASBMB Today
A Full-Circle STEM EventFebruary 12, 2024 • PCMA Convene
We’re social beings. So are microbes.February 12, 2024 • The Harvard Gazette
Inspiring, Training, and Supporting the Next Generation of ResearchersJanuary 25, 2024 • NIMH Director's Messages
A shift from parasites to immune cellsDecember 11, 2023 • ASBMB Today
2023 Inspiring Graduate | Daisy Belmares-OrtegaDecember 11, 2023 • UNM Newsroom
The implosion of the large laboratory business model - An interview with NIGMS Director Jon LorschNovember 22, 2023 • ASBMB Today
Bioengineer is a MOSAIC scholarNovember 20, 2023 • ASBMB Today
MARC program at Ohio State seeks to empower nascent researchersOctober 23, 2023 • Ohio State News
Investing in future generations of veterinary professionalsSeptember 8, 2023 • DVM 360
ASM Receives NIH Grant to Promote Faculty Diversity in Biomedical ResearchAugust 7, 2023 • American Society For Microbiology News
Mizzou Grad Student Aspires to Inspire the Underrepresented in STEMJuly 16, 2023 • Diverse Education
STEM camp helps grow Native American students' curiosityJune 28, 2023 • Nebraska Public Media
Mosquito research underway at Mayville State UniversityJune 21, 2023 • Grand Forks Herald
New safety videos focus on representing everyone who enters the labMay 18, 2023 • VCU News
High School Students Learn the Basics of Base Editing to Cure “GFP-itis”May 4, 2023 • UC San Diego Today
VUMC to coordinate national effort to reduce ARDS, pneumonia, sepsisMay 4, 2023 • VUMC Reporter
Training Budding Biomedical Researchers Continues Via Renewed $21.3 Million NIH GrantMay 3, 2023 • University of Hawai'i, John A. Burns School of Medicine News
Researchers find new molecule that shows promise in slowing SARS-CoV-2March 28, 2023 • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory News
NIH grants extend programs at Brown focused on student diversity, success in Ph.D. science programsMarch 14, 2023 • Brown University News
UNITE Shares Insights from First Progress ReportFebruary 17, 2023 • NIH Record
Investigating the Brain-Gut ConnectionFebruary 15, 2023 • Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine News
Medical Student Meagan Chriswell Balances Research and Community ServiceFebruary 8, 2023 • University of Colorado School of Medicine News
MOSAIC changes the landscapeFebruary 2, 2023 • ASBMB Today
NIGMS: Highlights from 2022 and what to expect nextJanuary 23, 2023 • ASBMB Today
Kid-edited journal pushes scientists for clear writing on complex topicsJanuary 7, 2023 • The Washington Post
Breaking barriers: From first generation to inspirationDecember 20, 2022 • ASBMB Today
Developing High School Students into Data ScientistsDecember 19, 2022 • UConn Today
Human Genetic Cell Repository Celebrates 50 YearsDecember 9, 2022 • NIH Record
Making their MARC: Jonathan TaasanNovember 28, 2022 • Nevada Today
How gradeschoolers learn science, tech, engineering and math from wriggly wormsNovember 17, 2022 • Los Angeles Daily Times
Lorsch Highlights Workforce Development Programs for White House WorkshopNovember 11, 2022 • NIH Record
New Training Grant Matches Computation and Modeling to Experimental DesignNovember 1, 2022 • University of Virginia Engineering News
Science ‘on their fingertips’: Texas professor making chemistry available to blind studentsOctober 25, 2022 • Texas Standard
Nobel Prize for 3 chemists who made molecules ‘click’October 5, 2022 • AP News
Nobel Prize awarded to three scientists for work in click chemistry, which links molecules quicklyOctober 5, 2022 • Washington Post
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work ‘Snapping Molecules Together’October 5, 2022 • The New York Times
7 Ways to Support a Kid Who Wants to Care For AnimalsOctober 1, 2022 • Popular Science
NIGMS Launches STEM Teaching ResourceSeptember 16, 2022 • NIH Record
Inspiring Agents of Change [PDF]Fall 2022 • University of Alabama Capstone College of Nursing
Collaborations Inspired Early-Career NIH Grant that Could Lead to Treatment Breakthroughs for a Range of Medical ConditionsAugust 17, 2022 • University of Virginia School of Engineering
PVAMU receives prestigious NIH/NIGMS U-RISE award to prepare more students for careers in biomedical sciencesAugust 16, 2022 • Prairie View A&M University
A UVA Post-Doc Wants to Teach the Immune System How to Regenerate TissueAugust 16, 2022 • University of Virginia School of Engineering
Students Become Scientists Through SIUE’s STEM Center ProgramsJuly 28, 2022 • Southern Illinois University Edwardsville News
Meet Dr. Jon Lorsch: Director of the National Institute of General Medical SciencesJuly 25, 2022 • NIH MedlinePlus Magazine
Research opportunities for underrepresented studentsJuly 7, 2022 • WSU Insider
Bridges to the Doctorate program continues to prepare students for Ph.D. programsJune 23, 2022 • Towson University News
New WVU program trains next generation of toxicologists to collect, analyze air samples from mining, fracking sitesJune 21, 2022 • WVU University News
M.D.-Ph.D. programs have increased diversity — but there’s still work to doJune 7, 2022 • Yale News
Class AppealMay 2022 • The Physiologist Magazine
NIGMS Receives Certificate of Excellence in Citizen-Centric ReportingMay 27, 2022 • NIH Record
UK Receives Renewed $11.4 Million Grant to Further Cancer ResearchMay 25, 2022 • University of Kentucky Research News
The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Powered by Datavant and Regenstrief Wins 2022 FedHealthIT Innovation AwardMay 24, 2022 • Yahoo! Finance
$1.25 million NIH grant links science, literacy and math education in middle schoolsMay 4, 2022 • Bioengineer.org
Making untreatable vision problems treatable: WVU receives $11M for visual sciences research centerMay 2, 2022 • WVUToday
COVID-19 Testing Hits the Road in West VirginiaApril 25, 2022 • NIH COVID-19 Research Website
2022 cohort of NIH MOSAIC scholarsApril 19, 2022 • American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
A World of Science in a BoxMarch 24, 2022 • Dartmouth College
From pipettes to policy: Reflections on a decade working to expand opportunity and equity in scienceFebruary 19, 2022 • Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Yale Postdoc Chrystal Starbird Maximizes Her Opportunity With NIH Career AwardFebruary 14, 2022 • Yale University
Zuk Named NIGMS Deputy DirectorNovember 12, 2021 • NIH Record
Zuk named deputy director; Coorssen is co-editor-in-chiefNovember 1, 2021 • ASBMB Today
Brown Researchers, Local Partners Aim to Reduce Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination, TestingOctober 22, 2021 • Brown University
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Duo Who Made a Tool to Build Molecules in an Environmentally-friendly WayOctober 6, 2021 • Washington Post
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Scientists for Tool That Builds Better CatalystsOctober 6, 2021 • New York Times
Nobel in Chemistry Honors ‘Greener’ Way to Build MoleculesOctober 6, 2021 • Associated Press
News Feature: Keeping Black students in STEMJune 8, 2021 • PNAS
Harvard's Brown Rethinks General AnesthesiaFebruary 5, 2021 • NIH Record
Long-Time NIGMS Leader Greenberg RetiresJanuary 8, 2021 • NIH Record
Kahoot! Academy and Scholastic Launch Games to Engage Learners Worldwide in Science and Health EducationOctober 20, 2020 • Kahoot! Academy
Discoveries in Basic Science: A Perfectly Imperfect ProcessOctober 2020 • NIH News in Health
Promoting Diversity and Advancing Racial Equity in the Biomedical SciencesSeptember 3, 2020 • ASCB Newsletter
Turning Anger Into Action: Minority Students Analyze COVID Data on Racial DisparitiesAugust 12, 2020 • California Healthline
NIH and the Importance of Basic Science Post COVID-19June 18, 2020 • R Street Institute
The NIGMS Human Genetic Cell RepositoryMay 4, 2020 • Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
COVID-19 Special Edition with Dr. Jon LorschApril 8, 2020 • ASBMB Pipettes and Politics Podcast
Biomedical Research and the NIH in the Age of COVID-19April 6, 2020 • Swarthmore College SwatTalk
Career Corner Interview: Dr. Kenny GibbsMarch 31, 2020 • ASPET PharmTalk Detail
Leaving the Reservation for Higher Education: The Story of Two BrothersJanuary 2, 2020 • Great Falls Tribune
NIH Clarifies Meaning of 'Disadvantaged' in Bid to Boost Diversity in ScienceDecember 13, 2019 • Science
New System Will Capture and Reuse Scarce Helium for Critical Lab InstrumentsDecember 12, 2019 • UC Santa Cruz News
How Agency Leaders Can Turn Vision Into ActionOctober 28, 2019 • Government Executive
Off TrackSeptember 2019 • The Physiologist Magazine
MIRA at Three Years: Maximizing NIGMS' Research InvestmentJuly 2, 2019 • ASCB Newsletter
Institutions Hope to Increase Diversity Through the Science of MentorshipMay 16, 2019 • Insight Into Diversity
Dorit Zuk on Her Unconventional Career JourneyFebruary 20, 2019 • Genes to Genomes
An Online Archive with Amazing Images of a Tiny but Essential Element of LifeOctober 27, 2018 • Washington Post
Building Diversity in Science, One Interaction at a TimeOctober 8, 2018 • Undark
Speeding up evolution to create useful proteins wins the chemistry NobelOctober 3, 2018 • ScienceNews
Looking to the Future of Graduate Biomedical EducationSeptember 14, 2018 • Scope
NIGMS - Leading the Way in STEM Education & TrainingAugust 9, 2018 • Scientia Global
Women and Men Get Research Grants at Equal Rates — If Women Apply in the First PlaceJuly 27, 2018 • ScienceNews
Leaky Pipeline for Women Scientists Dries Up After They Win First Big GrantJuly 18, 2018 • Nature
Women Maintain NIH Funding Similar to Men: StudyJuly 16, 2018 • The Scientist
New Analysis of Funding Trends Offers Encouraging News for Female Investigators—With CaveatsJuly 16, 2018 • Science
Science Must Be ‘By All and For All,’ Says Omenn LecturerJuly 12, 2018 • American Association for the Advancement of Science News
Jon Lorsch: Making NIH Biomedical Research Data More Accessible, ReadableJuly 3, 2018 • Federal News Radio
Interview with Jon Lorsch, PhD, Director, NIGMSJune 2018 • ATS Research News Quarterly
Biologist Gathers Genetic Clues from Sea LampreysJune 29, 2018 • NIH Record
How NIH is Organizing Its Enormous Troves of DataJune 4, 2018 • Nextgov
NIH funds development of 3 national cryo-electron microscopy centersMay 15, 2018 • HealthImaging
Connected to the CauseMarch 01, 2018 • Hispanic Executive
Enhancing Diversity in Science: A Career in Science PolicyFebruary 14, 2018 • American Society for Microbiology
The Journey from Durham to DC: Kenneth Gibbs Jr.January 9, 2018 • Beyond the Bench: STEMulating Career Conversations
MIRA Awards Reflect Innovation of UConn Scientists January 8, 2018 • UConn Today
NIH Plans Big Shake-up of Minority Mentoring NetworkDecember 19, 2017 • Science
Addressing the Research Replication CrisisDecember 12, 2017 • AAMC News
Why Do So Many Americans Win the Nobel Prize?October 6, 2017 • Inside Science
3 Americans Win Nobel Prize in Medicine for Uncovering the Science Behind Our Biological ClocksOctober 2, 2017 • Los Angeles Times
Science in Color Podcast – Interview with Dr. Alison Gammie, Director of the Division of Training, Workforce Development, and DiversityAugust 28, 2017 • Science in Color
Scientia.Global Interview with NIGMS Director Jon LorschAugust 24, 2017 • Scientia.Global
Chemists Champion Their Future at 2017 National Organic Chemistry SymposiumJuly 24, 2017 • Chemical & Engineering News
Metabolism: Sweeter Paths in GlycoscienceJune 29, 2017 • Nature Methods
The Best-Kept Secrets to Winning GrantsMay 24, 2017 • Nature
In the Laboratory of Science Policy: An Interview With Richard AragonApril 12, 2017 • eLife
Transferring Skills Beyond the LabMarch 1, 2017 • Science Magazine
Solving the Faculty Diversity ProblemMarch 1, 2017 • ASBMB Today
Q&A with NIH’s Susan GregurickJanuary 17, 2017 • SIAM News