Recent News
Biology Staff Receive Superior Accomplishment Awards!
February 22, 2019
Congratulations to Biology staff members Pete Ryschkewitsch and Mike Gunter! They are recipients of 2019 Superior Accomplishment Awards. This university-wide program recognizes staff members who contribute outstanding and meritorious service to their departments. Pete and Mike were singled out for… Read More
Congratulations to this year’s BGSA award and grant winners!
February 12, 2019
The department extends its warmest congratulations to this year’s BGSA award and grant winners. A huge thanks goes to our faculty advisors, Karen Bjorndal and Jamie Gillooly, for their guidance in reviewing and ranking applications, as well as Marta Wayne… Read More
BIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT ROBERT JOHNSON WINS AWARD
Robert Johnson, a Ph.D. student in Karen Bjorndal’s Lab., received the Archie Carr Best Student Paper Award at the 39th International Sea Turtle Symposium for his paper “Green turtle grazing causes a consistent response in seagrass ecosystem metabolic carbon capture… Read More
Biology Professor receives prestigious fellowship
February 6, 2019
Biology Eminent Scholar and Professor Robert Holt has been awarded the Batsheva de Rothchild Fellowship from the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities. He will visit Ben-Gurion University, Hebrew University and Tel-Aviv University to initiate new research collaborations with Israeli… Read More
Biology undergrad wins top honors!
February 1, 2019
Aaron Sandoval, an undergraduate research student in Malcolm Maden’s Lab, won first prize in the Life Science competition at the National Collegiate Research Conference. His poster described his research on skin regeneration in spiny mice. Over 200 undergraduate students from… Read More