Category: Education

When senior Bogdan Buzdugan first learned about the Center for Synthetic Biology’s new internship for North Park University undergraduates, he had just finished his last final of the semester. “I … Continued

“Student organizations were super active here pre-COVID, but when COVID started, things began to fizzle,” says Dylan Brown, a fifth-year chemical engineering student in the Lucks Lab. Even after the … Continued

Northwestern’s Center for Synthetic Biology hosts inaugural fellow through a research collaboration with Synbio Africa

This year’s Center for Synthetic Biology’s Annual Retreat centered squarely on Northwestern students, trainees, and postdocs in CSB faculty labs. “CSB students and trainees are the foundation of our community,” … Continued

Fourteen talented undergraduate students and their mentors convened at the Center for Synthetic Biology (CSB)’s annual undergraduate research symposium on August 19 to celebrate the conclusion of their summer research … Continued

Ten promising university students from across the US will call Northwestern their home this summer as the 2024 cohort of the Synthetic Biology Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (SynBREU). The … Continued

Thanks to a generous grant from the DeFeo Family Foundation, five outstanding Northwestern undergraduate students were selected to be the first recipients of the DeFeo Family Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award. … Continued

For Laura Hertz, a fifth-year graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program, the opportunity to work in the lab of Julius Lucks, co-director of the Center for Synthetic Biology, … Continued

Northwestern University’s Center for Synthetic Biology (CSB) is pleased to announce George Peter Magoola as the inaugural recipient of the Center’s new Research Experience for Africans (SynBrREA) Fellowship. The pilot … Continued