News and Events – Page 3 – Department of Biology

Spend an Afternoon at the Farm Documenting Biodiversity!

April 15, 2026

As part of our annual Farm Bioblitz, we will document as many species as we can find at the University Farm! You don’t need to know how to find or identify plants, fungi and animals; all you need is enthusiasm, a free iNaturalist account, and a phone. Date and Time: Saturday,...

BioChem Alum and Former Biology TA Awarded NSF GRFP Fellowship

April 16, 2026
alumni, Anjali Raju, fellowship, NSF

Anjali Raju (CWRU ‘24) was recently awarded as part of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the “Life Sciences – Structural Biology” category, which “recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time research-based master's and doctoral degrees in STEM fields”. Anjali shared some details about her...

Biology CURE Labs Change how Students Explore Research

April 8, 2026
CURE courses, teaching lab

A special group of biology labs, called CURE, are helping students understand research and develop their own experiments. Featured in The Daily, these courses allow students to ask open-ended questions and develop their own methods of testing and gathering data. Rather than completing a checklist of steps and going through guided...

Effects of Simulated Dusk and Dawn on Activity and Feeding of Puerto Rican Crested Toads (Peltophryne lemur) in Captivity, by Brady Parlato and Noah Dunham

March 13, 2026
Brady Parlato, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Noah Dunham

Check out this new article in Zoo Biology by CWRU graduate student Brady Parlato and Cleveland Metroparks Zoo research curator and BioScience Alliance adjunct assistant professor Dr. Noah Dunham on the effects of light at night on the behavior of Puerto Rican crested toads! They found that toads tended...

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