May 20, 2020
Health Professions Advising’s 2020 Honors
Associate Professor of Biology Nancy McCreary Waters and Simona Glaus, advisors for Health Professions Advising, surprised three outstanding seniors with…
Health and Life Sciences
Apr 17, 2020
Stellar Scholarship
Celebrating Savanna Touré ’21, who has received two prestigious scholarships in recognition of her strong academic performance and leadership.
Jul 23, 2019
Interning at Med School
Women's basketball student-athlete Naomi Ganpo '22 discusses her summer internship at Cooper Medical School of Rowan Medical School, where she is exploring…
Jul 8, 2019
A New Approach to Lung Cancer Research
Chloe Triolo '19 discusses her research with Khadijah Mitchell, Peter C.S. d’Aubermont Scholar of Health and Life Sciences, on lung cancer, including…
Jun 7, 2019
Prof. Khadijah Mitchell Receives Grant for Kidney Cancer Research
By Katie Neitz Khadijah Mitchell, Peter C.S. d’Aubermont, M.D., Scholar of Health and Life Sciences and assistant professor of biology, has been awarded…
Dec 3, 2018
Linking Health and Racism
Research has shown that experiencing discrimination increases risk for stress, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and early mortality. So how does one mitigate…
Mar 22, 2018
A Summer Spent on Cancer Research
Caroline Beneville ’20 served an internship at NYU’s Center for Genomics & Systems Biology that was supported by Lafayette’s Bossak/Heilbron Internship…
Dec 7, 2017
What Turtles Can Teach Us About the Winter Blues
By Katie Neitz If the dark days of winter make you feel blue, low-level signaling by melanopsin may be to blame. Melanopsin, a light-sensitive protein…
Nov 25, 2017
A Tale of Two Countries
By Katie Neitz Continuing debates over health care reform in the U.S. and National Health Service funding in the U.K. made the focus of a short-term study…
Jul 19, 2016
Impacting the World
Explaining the significance of studies by the National Institutes of Health related to heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders rests on the shoulders of…