Last week, TriCEM hosted a Cancer & Evolution Catalysis Meeting that brought together 50 scientists and trainees from Duke, NCCU, NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, and other organizations in the NC Triangle to explore cancer biology and treatment through the lens of evolution. The event featured a keynote presentation by Carlo Maley, Associate Professor in the Read more about Exploring cancer from an evolutionary perspective[…]
Calling all Duke PhD students! We’re hiring an Evolutionary Medicine Summer Programs Coordinator to assist in planning, facilitating, and contributing to our summer programming, which includes a variety of educational workshops, other trainings, science communication, and working group meetings to advance research. TriCEM’s summer programs cover a diversity of topics, including core evolutionary medicine principles and Read more about We’re hiring a summer programs intern![…]
Now accepting applications for spring graduate student funding! We have 2 opportunities available: Graduate Student Awards and the Steve Meshnick Travel Award. Graduate Student Awards support up to $7,500 in evolutionary medicine research, with additional funds available to support an undergraduate research assistant on the project. For this cycle, grad students at Duke, NC A&T, Read more about Applications now open for spring funding[…]
We are excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2022 Evolutionary Medicine Summer Institute (EMSI), to be held May 15th through 20th at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC*. EMSI provides training in evolutionary medicine to students, postdocs, and faculty from diverse fields, plus clinicians and other medical, veterinary, and public Read more about Applications open for Evolutionary Medicine Summer Institute[…]
TriCEM is proud to be a sponsor of an upcoming Energetics in Anthropology Workshop at Duke University. The workshop will be held May 2-3, 2022 and will highlight current research on all things energetics as they relate to anthropology. It will also include methods demos. More information, including information about registration and Early Career fellowships to help defray Read more about Energetics in Anthropology Workshop[…]
We’re thrilled to announce our newest cohort of TriCEM Graduate Student Awardees! This outstanding group includes diverse evolutionary medicine research at Duke and NC State on vector-borne diseases, neurodevelopmental evolution, marine medicine, and more. Congratulations to all of the award winners – we can’t wait to hear more about your work over the next year! Read more about Congratulations to our Fall 2021 TriCEM Grads![…]
There is just over a week left for K-12 teachers to apply to be a stop on TriCEM’s 2022 Darwin Day Roadshow! Our scientists are excited to talk to students, teachers, and the general public about their research and career opportunities in science. Would your school like to be a stop on our FREE Roadshow? What Read more about 1.5 wks left to apply for the Darwin Day Roadshow[…]
Now accepting applications for fall graduate student funding! We have 2 opportunities available: Graduate Student Awards and the new Steve Meshnick Travel Award. Graduate Student Awards support up to $7,500 in evolutionary medicine research. For this cycle, grad students at Duke and NC State are eligible to apply. More details: https://tricem.org/proposals/rfp/ The Steve Meshnick Travel Read more about Fall funding opportunities for grad students[…]
We’re thrilled to announce our Spring 2021 cohort of Graduate Student Award winners. This cycle, we had a fantastic and particularly competitive applicant pool from Duke, NC A&T, NCCU, and NC State. We’re excited to offer support to 9 graduate students studying diverse evolutionary medicine topics ranging from bed bug interference with malaria interventions to Read more about Announcing our Spring 2021 Graduate Student Awardees![…]
The 2021 Evolutionary Medicine Summer Institute (EMSI) was held virtually from May 23rd through 28th. From over 75 applications, 31 people were selected to participate. This diverse group included graduate students, medical students, faculty, undergraduate students, research associates, clinical fellows, and postdocs. Owing to this year’s unique virtual environment, we also had participants that spanned Read more about Virtual EMSI offered computational training and forged international connections[…]