Through the fall semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates, including stats and items of note. In this issue: a return to in-person and hybrid classes; new public health orders; a change to the hours at one testing site; and more.
Thirty years after beginning her training as a postdoctoral scholar in the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä lab of Nobel laureate Thomas Cech, biochemist Jennifer Doudna won her own Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the co-development of the revolutionary genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9.
²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s newest endowed professorial chair—the Sapp Family Endowed Chancellor’s Chair for Research Excellence—is the first of its kind. This $2.5 million fund allows the chancellor to support top-tier faculty in social science, education, neuropsychology and psychology.
²ÊÃñ±¦µä research attracted $613.9 million in funding in fiscal year 2020 for groundbreaking studies that, among other things, crack the code of the teenage brain, advance electric transportation and aim to understand how odors guide behavior.
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