Daniela Santos Da Mata (Phillips Lab) received a fellowship from the Graduate College for the Fall 2026 semester.

Our Integrated Biology (iBio) Graduate Program welcomed six new graduate students for the Fall 2026 semester.

Biology Professor, John Manak, PhD, and co-investigator Dr. Benjamin Darbro (Stead Family Department of Pediatrics), were interviewed for their research on intellectual disability (ID), a common neurological disorder characterized by communication difficulties and limitations in memory and learning.

Biology professor and graduate student introduced college students with little or no previous programming experience to Python and showed how coding can be used to address biological research questions in the 2026 Summer Scientific Coding Workshop.

Undergraduate research opportunities and hands-on learning prepare biology students to tackle real-world scientific challenges from the start of their college careers.