Monthly Archives: March 2012

The Future Home of NIMBioS: Move Set for April

Renovations are nearly complete at the new NIMBioS facilities at 1122 Volunteer Boulevard, and NIMBioS is expected to open for business in the new space on Monday, April 16. The new office space on the first and second floors of … Continue reading

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NIMBioS Announces New Songwriter-in-Residence: Baba Brinkman

NIMBioS is pleased to announce that educational hip-hop artist Baba Brinkman will be joining NIMBioS as its new Songwriter-in-Residence in April and May. Brinkman is a Canadian rap artist, writer, actor and tree planter. He is best known for his … Continue reading

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High School Scholars Visit NIMBioS

Tennessee high school students visited NIMBioS last week as a part of the annual Tennessee Junior Science and Humanties Symposium. Suzanne Lenhart, NIMBioS associate director for education, outreach and diversity, spoke to the students and their teacher sponsors about how … Continue reading

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The Story of a Scientific Collaboration: How One Nature Paper Came to Be

Having a few linear algebraists as co-workers can come in handy — especially near Halloween — when one is stuck on a knotty mathematical biology problem with no clear solution. This proved to be the case for NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow … Continue reading

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NIMBioS Responds to the Googleopoly

While the Google Empire rolls out controversial changes to its privacy rules today that track users across multiple services, NIMBioS also makes some changes of its own with regard to privacy and usage of our web site — changes that … Continue reading

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