Biology professor Maurine Neiman studies diminutive snails with a massive secret: Sometime in the recent past, the snails' genome doubled, giving them significantly more genetic material than they ought to have.

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.

Olivia Blake, a student majoring in Biology, presented at a research conference held at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Congratulations to these graduate students for successfully defending their dissertations during the Summer 2026 semester!

Dan Summers has been promoted to Associate Professor effective July 1, 2026.

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