“Cancer” cannot be cured

Widespread understanding of infectious disease is a miracle of public health. Modern drug stores devote entire aisles to medications and products for dealing with infections; navigating the options requires a level of understanding unimaginable to people even 200...

Gottwald Games Summer 2023

Another summer, another fun-filled day at the Gottwald Games. A series of lab-inspired field day events featuring teams of student researchers from all around campus. Since we started the research term a little late this year, we did not have our Pollock lab t-shirts...

Graduating Senior – Hannah Parker

Next (and last) in the graduating seniors of 2023 is Hannah Parker. Hannah is a Health Care Studies major with a minor in Chemistry; she is my first non-Chemistry, Biology, or BMB major. I remember distinctly my first conversation with Hannah – it was on Zoom...

Graduating Senior – Ted Corl

Is it already that time of the year already? When the seniors graduate and move on to bigger and better things? I cannot believe it (I know, I know, I say this every year, but it is always true). Graduation is in just over a week and this year there are two remarkable...

A Mini-Review

When the editor-in-chief of a journal that you respect reaches out to invite you to write a mini-review article, I suppose you should say yes. I was enthusiastic because although there are A LOT of reviews on estrogen receptor ligands, I had never seen one on...