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Undergraduate Research Program receives $500K gift

Nick Wurm — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:30:17 +0000

Dr. Mukund Padmanabhan and the Guru Krupa Foundation have awarded ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) $500,000. The grant will support a new Undergraduate Research Program (URP) fellowship for aspiring early career scientists. “Smart undergrads who want to pursue science and explore what is not known are sometimes constrained by their financial circumstances,” says Padmanabhan, who...

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‘Nature’s algorithm’ found in Chinese money plants

Nick Wurm — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:55 +0000

Look up at the clouds. What do you see? A sailboat? A seahorse? Your great-aunt Rosemary? As humans, we’re prone to seeing patterns where they don’t actually exist. This behavior is so common there’s a name for it: apophenia. But sometimes, those patterns really do exist. ��ϳԹ��Դ Associate Professor Saket Navlakha specializes...

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CSHL mourns the loss of David Baltimore

Nick Wurm — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:30:55 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) mourns the passing of Nobel laureate and revolutionary molecular biologist David Baltimore. In 1959, Baltimore became the first member of CSHL’s newly launched Undergraduate Research Program (URP). That summer, he worked with then-Assistant CSHL Director Arthur Chovnick on a project studying the “Physiological genetics of Drosophila and Neurospora.” But it...

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STEM career paths converge at SBS Open House

Luis Sandoval — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 11:30:42 +0000

How does one become a scientist? For many young people, the journey begins or intersects with ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL). The institute’s pathway programs offer a variety of entry points for students interested in biotechnology, AI, genetics, and other leading fields. These range from year-long research and education programs to weekly summer camps and...

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CSHL SBS graduation: Ceremony canceled, graduates undaunted

Jasmine Lee — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 20:00:39 +0000

In August 2021, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) School of Biological Sciences (SBS) awarded Doctor of Philosophy degrees to seven 2021 graduates. Additionally, distinguished academics Tania A. Baker and Mark Ptashne accepted honorary SBS degrees. The School originally planned to host a commencement ceremony to honor both 2021 and 2020 graduates (SBS had canceled the...

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CSHL serves up its 30th season of volleyball

Jasmine Lee — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 14:00:57 +0000

Volleyball is a time-honored tradition at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL). Unfortunately, the COVID-19/Sars-CoV-2 pandemic prevented a 2020 CSHL Volleyball League season. But with employees coming back to campus in 2021, the league has returned for its 30th season. ��ϳԹ��Դ Professor Adrian Krainer describes the role of volleyball at the Laboratory while...

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URP: Summer camp for undergrads

Jasmine Lee — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 12:30:59 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) actively encourages budding young scientists interested in pursuing a career in research. The Undergraduate Research Program (URP) at CSHL was established in 1959 to allow college students to conduct research in a professional laboratory environment. Hosted in the summertime, the ten-week program teaches students the scientific process, technical methods, and...

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Education Innovators – Pathways into research

Marc Persad — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:43:01 +0000

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LIVE At the Lab – Education Innovators: Pathways into research

Luis Sandoval — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:00:42 +0000

LIVE At the Lab webinar, conducted on July 1, 2021, focused on Education Innovators: Pathways into research." data-description="" />��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) welcomes budding scientists into the community through a number of programs and experiences. During a LIVE At the Lab webinar conducted on July 1, 2021, panelists discussed how they became involved: CSHL School of Biological Sciences Associate Dean Monn Monn Myat supervises aspiring scientists in the Partners for the Future...

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Educating biologists at the Laboratory

Jasmine Lee — Tue, 25 May 2021 17:00:44 +0000

The twenty-second incoming class of ��ϳԹ��Դ’s (CSHL) School of Biological Sciences included two US and seven international students. During the pandemic, the students initially quarantined for two weeks and then moved into student housing to act as a single household. This allowed them to take the majority of their courses in-person and...

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Undergrad symposium highlights lessons in the lab

Sara Roncero-Menendez — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:22:41 +0000

The 2018 Undergraduate Research Program (URP) culminated in an end-of-the-summer symposium on August 9–10, with students presenting the results of their intensive 10-week research projects. Twenty students from universities all around the globe worked in the many labs across campus under the mentorship of ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) researchers in the fields of cancer...

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What does it mean to be an URP?

Communications Department — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:33:36 +0000

A quick chat with Matheo Moralis and Professor David Spector, Director of Research, reveals how much the work of our undergraduate researchers mean to CSHL. Hint: A whole lot.

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Welcome back, Dr. Myat

Communications Department — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:56:54 +0000

Monn Monn Myat, Ph.D., is the new Associate Dean of the Watson School of Biological Sciences. But she is not new to CSHL. In 1990, as a sophomore at Mount Holyoke College, Myat was selected for the Lab’s summer Undergraduate Research Program. Inspired by the research under the mentorship of Professor Adrian Krainer, she graduated...

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Realizing a dream: How a program for undergraduates placed me at the center of CRISPR research

Andrea Alfano — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 18:58:10 +0000

Hands-on experience using CRISPR and access to top scientists from around the world who are pioneering its use made this a memorable summer for Undergraduate Research Program participant Sean Connelly. t breakfast on campus one summer morning, a friendly passerby sat down with me and we started talking about CRISPR. This new technology, which I...

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A summer splicing with first-year student Lital Chartarifsky

Communications Department — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:14:49 +0000

The arrival of summer brings much excitement to Cold Spring Harbor and the Watson School—barbeques, volleyball, horseshoe crabs, and URPs. The swarm of URPs—officially, Undergraduate Research Program students—come for the summer from universities all over the world to do research in a CSHL lab. They learn what it’s like to be a scientist: they work on a...

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Visiting undergraduates at CSHL: The 2012 class of URPs explores neuroscience, bioinformatics and cancer biology

Communications Department — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:50:05 +0000

ach summer, ��ϳԹ��Դ hosts 25 visiting undergraduates, affectionately known as “URPs,” after the historic program in which they participate. The Undergraduate Research Program began in 1959, and provides a unique opportunity for undergraduate students to study and work side by side with some of the world’s most renowned scientists, and thus to experience...

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Better science through volleyball

Jessa Giordano — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:06:32 +0000

olleyball is serious business at ��ϳԹ��Դ. The campus league is currently holding playoffs for its 21st season and is more popular than ever with close to 200 scientists and staff members taking part. Michael Cressy, who recently completed his Ph.D. dissertation in Dr. Josh Dubnau’s laboratory, joined the league his first summer...

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