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Rachel Penczykowski, a Biology PhD student in Meghan Duffy’s lab, has been chosen as a winner of a PEO Scholar Award. This $15,000 award is given by the International Chapter of the PEO Sisterhood, which is a philanthropic group that promotes educati
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When battling an epidemic of a deadly parasite, less resistance can sometimes be better than more, a new study suggests.
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The Georgia Tech School of Biology is pleased to announce that three of our faculty won campus-wide teaching awards this year.
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Two PhD students of the School of Biology, Mustafa Burak Boz and Jin Xu, received $1,500 travel grants for their posters at the recent Georgia Tech Research and Innovation Conference (GTRIC 2012).