News
JT Stoner accepts position with AmeriCorps
Past Handelsman Lab Undergraduate JT Stoner is amid a one-year position with AmeriCorps*VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America) as the Commit to Study (C2S) Community Outreach Coordinator at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). JT serves as a liaison between CSUS and its K-12 community partners to increase K-12 student interest
New York Times: Scientists Urge National Initiative on Microbiomes
Prof. Jo Handelsman was interviewed in the New York Times article “Scientists Urge National Initiative on Microbiomes” which can be read here.
Mark Graham et al. publish article on “Flipped Classroom”
Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Evaluation Director Mark Graham, along with former CTL postdoc Evava Pietri and others, published an article titled “Increased Preclass Preparation Underlies Student Outcome Improvement in the Flipped Classroom” in the journal CBE-Life Sciences Education. The article can be accessed here and YaleNews covered it
August 2015
Nichole Broderick departed Handelsman Lab to become an Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Connecticut. Congratulations and best wishes, Nichole! The entire lab thanks you for the leadership and support you provided in Jo’s absence over the past two years. Eva Pietri departed the Center
July 2015
Simon Hernandez departed the Handelsman Lab and the Center for Teaching and Learning to enroll in medical school at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Congratulations and best wishes, Simon! The Institute for Life Sciences Collaboration (ILSC) assumes management of the Small World Initiative as of July 1st, 2015. More information here. Prof.
June 2015
Prof. Handelsman is now on Twitter @Jo44. The Obama White House convened its first summit to fight antibiotic resistance on June 2, 2015. For detailed coverage, please see the National Geographic article here.
May 2015
Past Handelsman Lab Visiting Professor Jeyaprakash Rajendhran and his wife Jayashree recently welcomed a baby girl named Chaindavi. Congratulations, J. and Jaya! Past Handelsman Lab Postdoc Fabienne Wichmann and her partner Philipp welcome a baby boy. Weighing in at 6 lbs 12 oz and 19 1/4 inches long, Fionn Benjamin
April 2015
Handelsman Lab Undergraduate Juan Bravo received a Sherwood E. Silliman Fellowship for his project “Growth Inhibition of Flavobacterium johnsoniae by Pseudomonas fluorescens via an Unknown Contact Dependent Mechanism.” Congratulations, Juan! Handelsman Lab Undergraduate Grace Liu was accepted into the DAAD-RISE program and received an Alan S. Tetelman 1958 Fellowship for International Research in the
March 2015
Small World Initiative Communications Manager Simon Hernandez wrote an article about the Small World Initiative, the work of Jo Handelsman, and Giovanna Guerrero-Medina’s CienciaPR program. The article can be read in English here and in Spanish here. Prof. Handelsman wrote about soil on the White House OSTP blog here.