2022 Pilot Grant Awardees Announced
The CEMB has announced the 2022 cohort of Pilot Grant Awardees. Awarded to trainees, this grant provides up to $15,000 for graduate students to conduct innovative, collaborative research that spans disciplines, institutions, and kingdoms. ...
Marcus Foston Named Director of Diversity Initiatives, WUSTL
CEMB faculty and IRT leader, Marcus Foston, has been named director of diversity initiatives for the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. As the director of diversity initiatives, Foston chairs ...
$1.25 Million ADVANCE grant awarded to Treena Arinzeh to to Ensure Women Scholars Flourish as Inventors
CEMB's Treena Arinzeh has led an NJIT-team to win a $1.25 Million NSF ADVANCE grant to promote equity in commercialization activities. The team has set out to identify and eliminate barriers on university campuses to ...
First artificial scaffolds for studying plant cell growth
CEMB researchers have developed the first artificial scaffold to study plant cell growth. The scaffolds, made of polyvinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene copolymers, mimic the properties and structure of the plant’s cell wall and make it possible ...
Elizabeth Haswell Lab Paper in Science!
Elizabeth Haswell Lab Paper in Science! (From The Record on 8/4/21) Biologists led by CEMB faculty member Elizabeth Haswell discovered that so-called PIEZO channels are not found along the plasma membrane in plant cells ...
2021 UExB program in full swing!
The UExB summer students are immersing themselves in St. Louis and Philadelphia as they near completion of the 2021 UExB program! At Washington University in St. Louis, students toured the Cortex Innovation District. Cortex ...
