Biology Professor John Manak was recently honored with a Friend of Systems Unlimited Award for his advocacy work on behalf of the disabilities community in the class he teaches, Good Genes Gone Bad.

Cathy Yea Won Sung and Anne Martin are advancing research in hearing loss and brain science with support from the National Institutes of Health and the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust.

Bin Z. HE, Associate Professor of Biology, and Hubert Kicinski, an iBio Graduate Student in the HE Lab, are offering a free coding workshop in Summer 2026 for Biology undergraduate students and other related majors.

Christina Yu, majoring in Neuroscience and a student in the Iowa Sciences Academy, received 2nd Place at the 2026 Quick Pitch Challenge!

Andrew Forbes, Professor of Biology, will be a presenter in an upcoming Wide Lens Series event on the topic of Conflict and Resolution.

Sean Strand, an undergraduate student majoring in Biology and a member of Tina Tootle's lab in the Department of Biology, received a 2026 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award!

Katheryn Rothenberg, an Assistant Professor of Biology, was featured in the March 18, 2026 publication of Anatomy Now, an e-newsletter to breaking news in the anatomical sciences, top journal articles, member highlights, new resources, and more.

Congratulations to iBio graduate student, Sehee Min, on successfully defending her dissertation!

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.