Jaidev Bapat, one of the recipients of the Mirandon Foundation Scholarships is focused on a form of cancer–ovarian. Jaidev’s work in the lab will focus on ovarian tumor metastasis and…
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Howell-UCSD 2016 Scholar and her interest in preventing breast cancer
Tiffany Lee received one of three scholarships awarded by the Mirandon Foundation for Hope, indicating an interest in cancer, especially of the breast. Tiffany Lee’s project title is “Dissecting the Molecular…
Howell-UCSD 2016 Scholar, Jonathan Pham, to research the role of placental development and pre-eclampsia
Jonathan Pham is researching the topic of the “Role of Sirt1 during Mouse Trophoblast Injury.” Jonathan, the second Mirandon Foundation for Hope scholar, will focus on the roll of the…
Women in Science Rock: Interview with our May 20th speaker Dr. Dorothy Sears, Ph.D on Simple Lifestyle Changes
Dr. Dorothy Sears will be presenting “Simple Lifestyle Changes for Improving Women’s Health” on May 20th. This interview provides an insight of our speaker. Thank you Dr. Sears for joining…
Women's Health Week: The time to start taking care of one's health is NOW for a healthy life. Are you up for a challenge?
Every year in May, the Office on Women’s Health celebrates Women’s Health Week. Let’s face it: when we are in our 20’s we think we are invincible! But the foundation…
30 minutes a day keeps the doctor away! 9 things you can do to improve your health NOW.
How do you improve your health? Dr. Dorothy Sears, Associate Professor of Medicine from UCSD came to speak at the Howell Foundation’s luncheon research on 2 key concerns and how…
Being Grateful for all the Nurses that cross our path!
National Nurse’s week is celebrated May 6th to May 12th. This incredibly noble profession isn’t always recognized as it should. Aside from treating patients that can be very sick or…
Howell-UCSD Scholar Emily Judd to Conduct Research on Depression.
Come and meet Emily Judd at the Howell Foundation Lecture “Small Lifestyle Changes for Improving Women’s Health” on May 20th. The Howell Foundation announced that Emily Judd was awarded the…
Simple Lifestyle Changes for Improving Women’s Health
We’ve all heard that exercise, managing stress and healthy eating are the cornerstone of a healthy life. You can find tons of advice on how to make simple lifestyle changes…
Legacy Council Kickoff Meeting seeks to Ensure the History behind the Doris A. Howell Foundation.
The Howell Foundation Legacy Council held its inaugural meeting this month to discuss the ways in which it will work towards recording the history of the Doris A. Howell Foundation.…
It will take more than 10,000 experiments!
The Doris Howell Foundation held its first Luncheon Series with the lecture “Understanding the genome 10,000 experiments at a time: applying genomic approaches to understand autoimmune disease in women” with…
Always GREAT to hear from our scholars - Brandon Strong!
Brandon Strong – Howell/CSUPERB Scholar 2016 Thank you Brandon Strong for you wonderful testimonial! Brandon was our 2016 CSUPERB Howell Scholar. The scholarship Brandon received goes to help him…
No need to count sheep! The 7 things you can do to improve your sleep tonight.
The National Sleep Foundation paints a pretty clear picture on how lack of sleep affects women and their health, how they cope and a few recommendations on how to improve…
Congratulations to the 2016 Howell CSUPERB Scholars!
Pictured above: Sima Chokr (Biology, California State University, Long Beach), Karl Liboro (Biology, California State University, Los Angeles), Brandon Strong (Biological Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo) & Alan Tran…
Google Doodle: The power of a dream and the possibilities of making it happen. International Women's Day Doodle 2016: #OneDayIWill
Those of us who constantly search the internet have come across a Google Doodle from time to time. Something to lighten up the day as well as informative and fun!…
Celebrating the women and men that make our work at the Howell Foundation possible!
As this year’s International Women’s Day comes around, we would like to thank all the women and men that make our work at the Doris A. Howell Foundation possible. It…