News and Events – Department of Biology

Biology Spends Orientation Week at the CVNP

September 2, 2026
Biology Department Retreat, CVNP, Department Retreat

Biology held a department-wide retreat at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Happy Days Lodge on Wednesday August 19th. Faculty, staff, and graduate students engaged in discussions about a wide variety of things - some biology related and some not - while enjoying the benefits of being surrounded by nature....

Elizabeth Rush Presents at European Conferences, Wins Awards

September 2, 2026
Bethy Rush, EEM, graduate student, Mead Lab, student awards, Timothy Mead

Bethy Rush, graduate student in Dr. Timothy Mead's lab, recently attended and presented talks at three international conferences including Lund University Matrix Biology Symposium (Sweden), The Danish Society for Matrix Biology (Denmark, Copenhagen) and the European Elastin Meeting (EEM; Copenhagen, Denmark). She won a Travel Award and an award...

Bagby Lab research on mobile genetic elements featured on the cover of Nature Microbiology

July 1, 2026
Derek Smith, Dylan Cronin, ecology, Sarah Bagby

New research from Sarah Bagby's group provides the first broad look at the abundance, activity, and impacts of mobile genetic elements in a complex natural ecosystem. Research scientist Derek Smith and postdoctoral scholar Dylan Cronin contributed to the work, which Bagby led jointly with colleagues Matthew Sullivan of The...

Fox Lab Nervous System Research Featured in The Daily

June 18, 2026
Fox Lab, Jessical Fox, Kristianna Lea, Madeline Ang

Professor Jessica Fox, Kris Lea, and Maddie Ang were recently featured in The Daily, speaking about their research into "how an insect’s nervous system converts sensory information about the body’s position and movement into neural information to produce adaptive behavior", hoping to spark development of new technologies to help humans. The...

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