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College of Science and Technology

Professor Sudhir Kumar Achieves Landmark of 300,000 Citations on Google Scholar

by Sarah Chung
October 29
Sudhir Kumar, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Biology and director of the Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine at Temple University, has reached a monumental milesto...
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CST Undergraduate Research Symposium to showcase student work, feature CPH’s Chantelle Nobile Hart as keynote speaker

by Greg Fornia
October 23
CST’s fall Undergraduate Research Symposium is scheduled for Wednesday, November 13, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., in the Science Education and Research Center lobby. Dozens...
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Temple becomes hub for NIH-funded Bioinformatics Resource Center

by Sarah Chung
September 20
Professors Sergei Pond and Ananias Escalante of the College of Science and Technology will lead a hub of the BRC-Analytics—a newly established Bioinformatics Resource Center...
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Antonio Giordano, director of Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, ranked among top researchers in biology/biochemistry by Research.com

by Greg Fornia
June 10

A New Professional Science Master officially launched: PSM in Sustainability

by JayDiii Grattepanche
April 24
A new PSM in Sustainability has been launched as a joint effort by faculty from the College of Science and Technology (CST) and the College of Liberal Arts (CLA). This progr...

Temple professor helps African national malaria programs combat deadly new strains

by Jonny Hart
April 03
In the summer of 2020, as the world continued to combat COVID-19 with no vaccine in sight, another major health crisis was emerging in Africa. That August, Rwanda became...
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Sbarro Institute researchers describe newly-observed role for CDK9 protein in regulating DNA repair during cellular division, where errors can become the origin of cancerous tumor growth

by Greg Fornia
March 05

Professors Hedges, Kumar, Obradovic, and Babaian win a $1M NSF project!

by JayDiii Grattepanche
February 13
NSF has awarded $1 million to build a comprehensive timetree of life, the cornerstone of biological diversity. Led by Blair Hedges and Sudhir Kumar (Bio), it is a collaborativ...

Congratulations Eli and Mary!

by JayDiii Grattepanche
January 30
The Biology department congratulates Eli and Mary for their CST Outstanding Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant Awards, respectively. You can learn more about the depart...
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Study by Biology's S. Blair Hedges and More Than 100 Other Scientists: Climate Change Major Cause of Global Amphibian Decline

by Bruce E. Beans
November 10
Temple University biology professor S. Blair Hedges is part of a major study by more than 100 researchers that shows climate change is a major driver of amphibian declines glo...

Two faculty members of the CST Biology Department published in Nature in October

by JayDiii Grattepanche
October 31
Two faculty members of the CST Biology Department were published in Nature in October. Congratulations to them! Sergei Pond, in the News & Views entitled "Anti-CO...

Biology Department Promotion

by JayDiii Grattepanche
August 28
Temple Biology department is pleased to congratulate:  Darius Balciunas for his promotion to full professor effective July 1, 2023.  Alla Arzumanyan for her promotion ...

A new College of Science and Technology dean will join Temple University this fall

by Deirdre C. Hopkins
August 03
Temple University is pleased to announce the selection of Miguel Mostafá as the next dean of the College of Science and Technology (CST), said Temple University Provost...

Masatoshi Nei, Kyoto prize-winning evolutionary geneticist, dies at 92

by Sudhir Kumar and Greg Fornia
May 19
Champion of the neutral theory of molecular evolution, inventor of Nei’s distance and Laura H. Carnell Professor at Temple University Dr. Masatoshi Nei was a pioneering evol...
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