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!
Fall 2025 Seminar Schedule
We have concluded our biology seminar series for the spring semester and are grateful to all our speakers and students who participated. We will update the fall 2025 seminar schedule in August so stay tuned!
Click on the link below for the list of spring 2025 speakers.
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.
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.
Carrie Wu was promoted to professor of biology. Her research investigates the mechanisms of adaptive differentiation and speciation and examines how environmental variation influences phenotypic and genetic variation among natural plant populations.
Four members of the Class of 2025 heading to Syracuse University, Penn, Oxford, and MIT are among the 100-plus recent Richmond alumni on their way to graduate school this fall.
Research by biology professor Jonathan Richardson is featured.
Research by biology professor Jory Brinkerhoff is featured.
Biology professor Jory Brinkerhoff is interviewed.
Biology professor Jonathan Richardson is featured.
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