Biology Professor, Maurine Neiman, is the 2025 recipient of the IDEA Award given to a person at any career stage who has strengthened the ecology and evolutionary biology community by promoting access and inclusiveness in the fields of the ASN, SSE, and SSB.

Get to know Biology professor, Bin Z. HE, in this interview with him.

Cathy Yea Won Sung, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology, received a three-year, $739,338 grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to investigate how to prevent permanent hearing loss caused by a widely used anti-cancer drug.

The Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank (DSHB) received a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to consolidate its various labs and offices into a larger space in the Biology Building.

Maurine Neiman, Professor of Biology, has been named Treasurer of the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) for 2026.

Check out the Department of Biology's Winter 2026 Newsletter!

Biology student Tyler Draayer came to campus from Lawton, Iowa, expecting great academics. He discovered so much more.

Two Biomedical Sciences undergraduate students and a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Biology were featured in the 2026 Dare to Discover campaign.

John Manak, a Professor in the Department of Biology, received a grant to study Intellectual Disability, a common neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significant limitations in learning, memory, and problem-solving as well as social interaction and communication.

Due to the weather forecasted for Friday, January 23, the 12th Raymond Fong Memorial Lecture with keynote speaker Dakota McCoy, will be held virtually.