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Lillian Fritz-Laylin Named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Lillian Fritz-Laylin, professor of biology, was recently named as one 26
researchers included in this year’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
Investigator Program. The HHMI Investigator Program, which provides each awardee
with roughly $11 million over seven years—renewable indefinitely
August 5, 2024
Researchers at UMass Amherst show the evolutionary persistence of a weediness
trait, rewriting the story of rice as we know it
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have discovered that the
anatomical adaptation helping weedy rice varieties to proliferate is not, as
previously believed, confined only to these pest varieties. The research,
published recently in the Journal of Experimental Botany, shows that despite
August 5, 2024
Institute of Diversity Sciences Awards 2024 Seed Grant to Babbitt and Peyton
Breast cancer is a terrible affliction across the whole world. But in Ethiopia,
it seems to be especially menacing, striking women at younger ages and at more
advanced stages. Now, a cross-continental team of researchers is embarking on a
groundbreaking project to understand why. Comparing the
August 5, 2024


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BIOLOGIST LYNN ADLER AWARDED THE MAHONEY LIFE SCIENCES PRIZE

Professor Adler has been awarded the Mahoney Life Sciences Prize for her
pioneering work, which illuminates the relationship between pollinators, flowers
and disease.


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