The Synapse
Updates from the Sciences at Loyola University Maryland
2024 Nobel Prize Winners
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation".
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield, Princeton University, NJ, USA, and Geoffrey E. Hinton, University of Toronto, Canada "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks".
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 with one half to David Baker, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind, London, UK and John M. Jumper, Google DeepMind, London, UK “for protein structure prediction”.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 to Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, Simon Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA and James A. Robinson, University of Chicago, IL, USA “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024, was awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang,
“for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again
Research Resources for Loyola students, faculty, staff, and administrators!
The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) announces its upcoming opportunities, events, and deadlines. The mission of the CUR is to support and promote high-quality mentored undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative inquiry. It also provides support and professional development opportunities for faculty, staff, administrators, and students.
Please check the CUR's calendar of events for more information.
Register for the MS Data Science Virtual Info Session on Wednesday, November 20th!
Join us for an upcoming information session to learn more about Loyola University Maryland's Online Graduate Data Science program. The academic program director and the director of program operations will be present to answer your questions regarding program formats, application requirements, and the admission process.
By attending any of our information sessions, you can save yourself from paying the $60 graduate application fee.
Join us and explore the opportunities that await you! Please register here.