About 10 years ago biochemistry professor Albert Courey put on sunglasses and a backwards hat and rapped “The Rhyme of the Ribozyme,” a verse written by Dennis Kuo, an alumnus who took Courey’s class ...

On the first day of his biochemistry class this semester, professor Gerald “Jerry” Feigenson invited 50 randomly selected students to meet with him and “figure out the grading policies of this class.” ...

"Standing in front of the Biochemistry students on the first day of class is a feeling like no other. Sure, there are nerves—400-plus students is a LOT of people, and you just hope nothing goes wrong.

Typically, the students who enroll in Karla Neugebauer’s undergraduate classes are interested in examining life at the molecular level. But during a recent seminar discussion, Neugebauer, a professor ...