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Four Department of Biological Sciences faculty members have been honored with professorships to support their work in biological sciences. Alison Barth, Luisa Hiller, Veronica Hinman and Sandra Kuhlman were recognized at a reception on Sept. 12, 2019,\u00a0 <\/span>in the Mellon Institute.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAn endowed professorship is one of the highest honors that our institution bestows upon faculty, and this honor symbolizes the high esteem to which they are held,\u201d said Carnegie Mellon University Provost Jim Garrett.<\/p>\n \u201cEach of these faculty members are being recognized for their important work in fields that will be some of the most important of the 21st century,\u201d said Rebecca W. Doerge, Glen de Vries Dean of the Mellon College of Science. \u201cWhile their discoveries will make a significant impact in the world, that impact is equaled by their contributions to the students who they teach in class and mentor in the lab.\u201d<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row custom_padding=”|25px||25px||true” _builder_version=”3.14″ background_color=”rgba(12,12,12,0.75)”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.14″ text_font=”||||||||” text_text_color=”#ffffff” header_font=”||||||||” header_3_font=”||||||||” header_3_text_color=”#ffffff”]<\/p>\n Alison Barth, Professor of Biological Sciences<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Barth joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty in 2002, after earning her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the cellular and synaptic changes that occur in the brain\u2019s neocortex during learning. She is also interested in identifying the algorithms of learning and determining how these algorithms can be used to inform engineered systems.<\/p>\n Barth has received numerous awards, including the McKnight Foundation\u2019s Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award, the Humboldt Foundation\u2019s Bessel Research Award and a Sloan Foundation Fellowship. Barth also holds appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Maxwell H. and Gloria C. Connan established this professorship in 2002 to support the work of Carnegie Mellon. The Connan\u2019s were profoundly committed to the university and were enthusiastic supporters and volunteers for more than 60 years.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/magazine.mcs.cmu.edu\/bio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/alison_barth.jpg” _builder_version=”3.14″ border_width_bottom=”40px” border_color_bottom=”#008f91″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row custom_padding=”|25px||25px||true” _builder_version=”3.14″ background_color=”rgba(12,12,12,0.75)”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/magazine.mcs.cmu.edu\/bio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/hinman_professorships.jpg” _builder_version=”3.14″ border_width_bottom=”40px” border_color_bottom=”#008f91″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.14″ text_font=”||||||||” text_text_color=”#ffffff” header_font=”||||||||” header_3_font=”||||||||” header_3_text_color=”#ffffff”]<\/p>\n Veronica Hinman, Professor of Biological Sciences<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Hinman joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty in 2006 after earning her Ph.D. at the University of Queensland and completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. Hinman\u2019s research focuses on the evolution of gene regulatory networks (GRNs), the complex pathways that control the expression of genes. She uses echinoderms, including starfish, sea cucumbers and sea urchins, as models to study how GRNs control cell fate during the early stages of development and how they are reused in regeneration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Hinman directs Echinobase, an open-access bioinformatics database that is the primary repository for genomic information on echinoderms. She also is a member of the Department of Computational Biology and Center for Nucleic Acids Science and Technology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Frederick A. Schwertz had a long association with Carnegie Mellon as a student, an educator and a scientist, earning his bachelor\u2019s, masters and doctoral degrees at Carnegie Tech and serving as an administrative fellow at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. He established the Dr. Frederick A. Schwertz Distinguished Professorship in Life Sciences in 2000. The professorship has historically gone to the head of the Department of Biological Sciences.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row custom_padding=”|25px||25px||true” _builder_version=”3.14″ background_color=”rgba(12,12,12,0.75)”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.14″ text_font=”||||||||” text_text_color=”#ffffff” header_font=”||||||||” header_3_font=”||||||||” header_3_text_color=”#ffffff”]<\/p>\n Luisa Hiller, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Hiller<\/b> joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty after earning her Ph.D. from Northwestern University Medical School and completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Allegheny-Singer Research Institute\u2019s Center for Genomic Sciences. Hiller studies the molecular mechanisms Streptococcus pneumoniae<\/i> (pneumococcus) employs to cause disease. She has discovered novel cell-to-cell communication molecules that are employed to promote disease.<\/p>\n Kuhlman<\/b> joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty after earning her Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky and holding postdoctoral positions at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the University of California, Los Angeles. Kuhlman studies the influence that cortical inhibitory circuits have on sensory development and perceptual learning.<\/p>\n The Eberly Family shares its good fortune through a number of philanthropic vehicles, including The Eberly Foundation, The Eberly Family Charitable Trust and The Community Foundation of Fayette County. The Eberly Family Career Development Professorships of Biological Science support exceptional biological sciences faculty in MCS.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/magazine.mcs.cmu.edu\/bio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/hiller_professorships.jpg” _builder_version=”3.14″ border_width_bottom=”40px” border_color_bottom=”#008f91″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/magazine.mcs.cmu.edu\/bio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/kuhlman_professorships.jpg” _builder_version=”3.14″ border_width_bottom=”40px” border_color_bottom=”#008f91″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row custom_padding=”26.015625px|0px|0|0px|false|false” _builder_version=”3.14″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_divider show_divider=”off” _builder_version=”3.14″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row custom_padding=”|25px||25px||true” _builder_version=”3.14″ background_color=”rgba(12,12,12,0.75)”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.14″ text_font=”||||||||” text_text_color=”#ffffff” header_font=”||||||||” header_text_color=”#ffffff” header_2_font=”||||||||” header_2_text_color=”#ffffff” header_3_font=”||||||||” header_3_text_color=”#008f91″ header_4_font=”|700|||||||” header_4_text_color=”#008f91″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”1022,1031,1032,1029,1030,1028,1033,1034,1027,1026,1025,1024,1023″ fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”3.14″ pagination_font=”||||||||” pagination_text_color=”#ffffff” background_layout=”dark”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.14″ background_color=”#1f4c4c” box_shadow_style=”preset6″ custom_padding=”30px|0px|30px|0px|false|false” prev_background_color=”#ffffff”][et_pb_row custom_padding=”0|0px|0|0px|false|false” _builder_version=”3.14″][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/magazine.mcs.cmu.edu\/bio\/2019-issue\/departmental-highlights\/” button_text=”Departmental Highlights” _builder_version=”3.14″ custom_button=”on” button_text_color=”#ffffff” button_border_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0)” button_icon=”%%2%%” button_icon_color=”#ffffff” button_icon_placement=”left” button_on_hover=”off” button_bg_color_hover=”#719f94″ button_border_color_hover=”rgba(0,0,0,0)” background_layout=”dark”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/magazine.mcs.cmu.edu\/bio\/2019-issue\/merging-medicine\/” button_text=”Merging Medicine” button_alignment=”right” _builder_version=”3.14″ custom_button=”on” button_text_color=”#ffffff” button_border_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0)” button_icon=”%%3%%” button_icon_color=”#ffffff” button_on_hover=”off” button_bg_color_hover=”#719f94″ button_border_color_hover=”rgba(0,0,0,0)” background_layout=”dark”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FACULTY HONORED WITH PROFESSORSHIPS by Jocelyn Duffy Four Department of Biological Sciences faculty members have been honored with professorships to support their work in biological sciences. 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Connan Professorship in the Life Sciences<\/b><\/h3>\n
Dr. Frederick A. Schwertz Distinguished Professorship\u00a0and Head, Department of Biological Sciences<\/b><\/h3>\n
Eberly Family Career Development Professorships of Biological Science<\/b><\/h3>\n
\n<\/i><\/b>Sandra Kuhlman, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\nView images from the professorships reception<\/h4>\n