Congratulations to students Anna Garcia and Aiden Cohen, and staff Jamie Wagner, for the winning entries in the 4th annual Biology Department Photo/Art Contest! Click below to see the 2025 winners and all contest submissions!
Our fall 2025 seminar series kicks off in August!
Nathan Derstine
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Richmond
Decoding Insect Signals: From Social Behavior to Invasive Species Management
Monday, August, 25
Gottwald Auditorium, A001
12-1pm
Click on the link below for our preliminary schedule.
We will update the fall 2025 seminar schedule in August so check back!
The Science Belonging Committee (SBC) creates inclusive programs that support science students at UR by offering safe spaces, essential tools, and community-building events. Comprising faculty, staff, and student ambassadors — who help plan and run events — the SBC hosts initiatives like listening sessions, research fairs, field games, career workshops, and socials to foster connection and belonging in the sciences.
Rats have lived alongside us in cities for centuries. We don’t like them, and they’re not good for us — but we don’t know what to do about them. UR’s urban ecologist and biology professor, and his students are on the case.
Colleen Carpenter-Swanson, assistant professor of Biology, along with students, Audrey Breckenridge, '25, Sanskriti Basnyat, '26, and Eva Fitch, '25, published “Validating the antiseizure effects of vitexin and related flavone glycosides in zebrafish” in Frontiers in Pharmacology.
Omar Quintero-Carmona, associate professor of biology, and John Warrick, associate professor of biology published "Transcriptomic Analysis of CAD Cell Differentiation" in MicroPublication Biology, along with students Lillie Wendt '26, Carlos Cevallos, '17, Anna Leigh White, '20, Brooke Fazio, '21 and GC '22, Jasmine Feng, '20, and Dora Posfai, '13.
Priscilla Erickson, assistant professor of biology, along with Camille Walsh-Antzak, ’24, published "Strength of Enemy Release From Parasitoids Is Context Dependent in the Invasive African Fig Fly, Zaprionus indianus" in Ecology and Evolution.
John Peters, a biology professor at the University of Richmond, has received a $502,981 National Science Foundation award to support his neuroscience research on the mechanisms of learning and memory.
Richmond has once again been named to The Princeton Review’s list of “Best Value Colleges” for 2025. Richmond has been included on this list since 2013.
Biology professor Jonathan Richardson is quoted.
Biology professor Carrie Wu, an expert on invasive plants, is quoted throughout this piece.
Research by biology professor Jonathan Richardson is featured.
Research by biology professor Jory Brinkerhoff is featured.
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