News and Events – Page 22 – Department of Biology

Get to know the BioScience Alliance in 20 minutes

March 8, 2021

Members of the BioScience Alliance (CWRU Biology, Holden Forests & Gardens, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and Cleveland Metroparks Zoo) recently highlighted their research in a virtual poster session as part of this year's Graduate Research Symposium. View the full session here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VdhrhAxCJsPUyHOAmp7eOD5ZFbowbB_e/view?usp=sharing

New Course for Summer 2021: Pandemics, Past and Present: Integrative Approaches (BIOL/HSTY 277)

February 25, 2021

Drs. Dianne Kube and Leena Chakravarty, along with colleagues in History, talk about their new course in the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ZGXvHpEB0

Dr. Sarah Diamond to lead special report on climate change policy

February 18, 2021

Sarah Diamond, associate professor in the Department of Biology, is a section lead on a special report coming out of a brand new collaboration between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The goal of the report is...

Dr. Jessica Fox featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

January 15, 2021

Why is it so hard to swat a fly? Scientists say they found that halteres — dumbbell-shaped evolutionary remnants of wings — are the reason why houseflies can takeoff quickly from any surface. You can listen and read a transcript here!

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