The New Research Building (NRB)
The building plan for the NRB was presented to a joint meeting of the Campus Planning & Facilities and Financial Planning Committees of the University Trustees on April 8, 2004. The Trustees approved BSD to proceed with architect selection and design. The NRB will house wet lab research space from the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, as well as faculty offices, a vivarium and flexible core space. Gross building size is approximately 330,000 square feet, and the total cost estimate is approximately $160 million. Target completion date is 2007.

Academic Affairs
The Appointments and Promotions Working Group completed its work with final presentations by Dr. Halina Brukner to the Divisional Executive Committee and at the Quarterly Faculty Meeting. Implementation is underway through the Offices of Academic Affairs and Graduate Affairs. Dr. Bruce Gewertz presented preliminary recommendations from the Tracks and Tenure Working Group at the April Divisional Executive Committee meeting. The Working Group will present its final recommendations to the same group in its May meeting, followed by completion of the final report in June.

Education
The Education Committee has taken a comprehensive look at the entire Divisional teaching load and assigned FQs for the entire undergraduate, graduate and medical school curricula, and the apportionment of the teaching load has been analyzed. The Committee will now concentrate on a strategy for how best to distribute the load equitably across the Division.

UCPP Executive Committee
The Executive Committee issued its first RFA for new clinical programs, and then began evaluation of the 15 proposals subsequently submitted. It was determined that the 15 “fast-track” proposals would be evaluated in 3 groups of 5 each. From the first group, a program designed to establish off-site Prenatal Centers has been approved for funding. Evaluation of the other programs is ongoing. The Program Development subcommittee is also evaluating early development program responses (LOIs) with promise to become mature proposals.

A Fish Tale
A fish tale is circulating through the scientific community and popular news outlets, thanks to a recent discovery by Dr. Neil Shubin, Professor and Chair, Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Dr. Michael Coates, Associate Professor...

Heart and Mind of Patient care
The Biological Sciences Division pursues its twin missions of medical education and patient care at the unique interface between the academic world of the University of Chicago and the clinical world of the University of Chicago Hospitals...

Topping-Off Ceremony
On Friday, April 16, 2004, the BSD celebrated the completion of major steel work on the new Interdivisional Research Building with an informal topping-off ceremony...

Aims Updates
The New Research Building (NRB)
The building plan for the NRB was presented to a joint meeting of the Campus Planning & Facilities and Financial Planning Committees of the University Trustees on April 8, 2004...

DEVELOPMENT
As of March 31, 2004, total campaign giving to the BSD and Hospitals has reached $371 million - 67% of the way to our $550 million Spark Discovery, Illuminate Life goal...

EDUCATION
In today's world of biological research, quantitative analysis, modeling and prediction are playing increasingly important roles. This in turn requires a new generation of students with mastery of mathematical problem-solving...

DISCOVERIES
Wei-Jen Tang, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Ben May Institute for Cancer Research, and his team have discovered that a drug approved by the FDA for treatment of chronic hepatitis B...

FOREFRONT
The Division of the Biological Sciences is proud to announce the appointment of two new Professors and Chairmen of the Departments of Pediatrics and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences....

ACCOLADES
Recent Awards and Grants Information for Biological Sciences Division Faculty

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Recent Recruitemnts and Appointments of Biological Sciences Division Faculty

Dollars & Sense
The BSD financial highlights for the first eight months of fiscal year 2004.

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