News and Events in the Biology Department

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Jessica LaBella, a Ph.D. student in Dr. Sarah Bagby’s lab, was awarded a 2023 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in environmental microbiology.

Jessica LaBella, a Ph.D. student in Dr. Sarah Bagby's lab, was awarded a 2023 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in environmental microbiology. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program is a prestigous award that recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are...

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Dr. Sarah Diamond publishes new paper in Science: Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

This past week, Dr. Sarah Diamond's article "Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts" was published in Science. Below is a summary of the press release: "Anthropogenic climate change has, together with the intensive use and destruction of natural ecosystems through agriculture, fishing and industry, sparked...

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PhD student Russell Engleman’s study, A Devonian Fish Tale: A New Method of Body Length Estimation Suggests Much Smaller Sizes for Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi: Arthrodira) published

Congratulations to PhD student Russell Engleman. Engleman's study, A Devonian Fish Tale: A New Method of Body Length Estimation Suggests Much Smaller Sizes for Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi: Arthrodira) was published in the February 21, 2023 journal Diversity and featured in The Daily. Click here to read The Daily article. To read the...

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