The 12th Raymond Fong Memorial Lecture with keynote speaker Dakota McCoy, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago, will be held on Friday, January 23, at 3:30pm.

The Department of Biology's Spring 2026 Seminar Schedule is now available.

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.

Bin Z. HE, an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, has been awarded the James Van Allen Natural Sciences Fellowship for the 2026-2027 fiscal year.

Six graduate students in the Department of Biology received fellowships from the University of Iowa Graduate College for the Spring 2026 semester.

Bin Z. HE, an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, received a three-year, $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Kara Juhl, a Biology undergraduate student, shares about her recent experience studying abroad in Santiago, Chile, at the CIEE 78th Annual Study Abroad Conference held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Amil Brown, who worked as an undergraduate student in the Forbes Lab in the Department of Biology and graduated with a bachelor's degree in December 2025, reflects on her experience at the University of Iowa.

Sean Strand, a Biology undergraduate student, received the first place People's Choice Award in the 2025 Capture Your Research Photo Contest for his work in the Tootle Lab.

Bhoomika Shettigar, majoring in Neuroscience, and Riley McCoy, a Biomedical Sciences student, attended the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Conference held November 15-19, 2025, at the San Diego Convention Center. Riley and Bhoomika are students in the Iowa Sciences Academy (ISA) and shared their experiences with attending SfN.