Recent News
UF student earns Goldwater Scholarship
April 13, 2018
Congratulations to Aaron Sandoval, a biology major student who has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship for the 2018-2019 academic year. Mr. Aaron Sandoval, a member of the UF Honors program has been conducting research at the Cancer and Genetics Institute… Read More
Dean’s Interdisciplinary Speaker Series 2018
March 29, 2018
“Paradise in the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities” PROFESSOR WILLIAM MARTIN Evolutionary Biologist and Professor at the Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Talk and Panel Discussion “Life out of Paradise: Where Did We Ultimately Come From,… Read More
Biology Postdoc publishes Nature paper on forest response to climate change
March 23, 2018
Biology Postdoc Tao Zhang and Assistant Professor Jeremy Lichstein published a major paper in Nature on the response of forests to climate change. They examine changes in forest biomass using systematic forest inventories from the 1980s and 2000s across the… Read More
Akito Kawahara Publishes A New Evolutionary Tree of Butterflies
March 8, 2018
Associate Professor of Biology and Curator Akito Kawahara and his colleagues have published the first comprehensive evolutionary tree of butterflies. The team analyzed 352 genetic markers from 207 butterfly species representing all butterfly families and subfamilies and 98 percent of… Read More
Davis wins CLAS Teacher of the Year award
February 14, 2018
Biology’s outstanding teacher scholars were recognized by three nominations for the CLAS Teacher of the Year competition. Drs. Brad Barbazuk, Keith Choe, and Christine Davis were all nominated, which in itself is a singular honor. Among this stiff competition (which also… Read More