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
Title TBD
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!
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.
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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