Posts Tagged ‘Lydia Contreras’

Raising A Future Scientist

Professors Michael Baldea and Lydia Contreras launch a program to engage underrepresented middle schoolers in STEM education.

Contreras Wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Assistant Professor Lydia Contreras recently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for her proposal titled “Mapping Regulatory Networks in Extremophiles,” which could help determine how cells respond to environmental changes and survive high-stress conditions.

The grant will further Contreras’ research to characterize and understand large-scale networks within a cell. Her work looks at … Read the rest »

Contreras Receives Air Force Young Investigator Award

Lydia Contreras has won a 2013 Air Force Young Investigator Award for her work on radiation-activated RNA switches for novel sensing technologies.  Contreras is one of 40 scientists and engineers selected in the $15 million dollar program for early career investigators that show exceptional ability and promise for conducting research.

“How to detect biological and … Read the rest »

Lydia Contreras Selected to Attend Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium

Lydia Contreras has been selected as one of 65 of the nation’s most innovative, young engineering educators to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) third Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium November 13-16, 2011 in Irvine, California. 

Selected faculty members will come together for the two-and-a-half-day event, where they can share ideas, … Read the rest »