Two undergraduate students majoring in Neuroscience have been selected as recipients of the 2025 Iowa Neuroscience Institute Summer Scholar Award.

Four students from the Department of Biology received the 2025 Excellence in Undergraduate Award sponsored by the UI Office of Undergraduate Research and the Office of the Vice President for Research.

Congratulations to the graduate students in the Department of Biology who graduated in Spring 2025!

Kristine Williams, an Assistant in Instruction in the Department of Biology, was the recipient of an Institutional Faculty/Staff of the Month award for April 2025.

The Department of Biology held their Awards Ceremony on Friday, May 9, 2025. Congratulations to all of these faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students for their accomplishments!

Undergraduate students in the Class of 2025 identified nearly 1,200 UI faculty and staff members who made a positive difference in their lives during their time at the University of Iowa.

It was through his classes and professors at the University of Iowa that Ben Cooper discovered a love of neurobiology.

Juhl, a sophomore studying genetics and biotechnology with minors in Spanish and sociology, will be participating in a liberal arts study abroad program through CIEE in Santiago, Chile, during the fall 2025 semester.

Maya Monk never could have predicted when she went looking for a research opportunity at the University of Iowa that she would end up working with 13,600-year-old mastodon bones. “It’s been such an incredible experience to get to work on this,” says Monk, who will graduate this spring with a BS in biology.

The Department of Biology is searching for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor position to teach two non-majors Biology courses each semester: Human Biology for Non-Majors and Human Biology for Health Professionals.