Our 3rd annual biology photo/artwork contest included 21 submissions from faculty, staff and students, representing a wide range of images and artwork as seen above. Click below to see our 2024 winners!
The seminar series has concluded for the 2023-2024 academic year.
The fall 2024 schedule will be updated this summer.
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a listing of 2023-2024 seminar series and links to speaker research.
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.
Biology department faculty Colleen Carpenter-Swanson was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) Epsilon Circle on Friday, January 26, 2024. ODK executive members who officiated the ceremony included Gottwald’s very own Jillian Yates ’24, Helen Xia ’24, Olivia Beatty ’24 and Corina Stasiak ’24 (left to right). The ODK Epsilon Circle honors exceptional student, faculty, staff, and alumni leaders who enrich our campus community. Give a warm Spider congratulations to the new ODK members!
Melinda Yang, assistant professor of biology, and Kylie Korsnack, assistant director teaching & scholarship hub, published "Pairing a bioinformatics-focused course-based undergraduate research experience with specifications grading in an introductory biology classroom" in Biology Methods and Protocols.
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Stephen Ferguson, visiting assistant professor of biology, published "What happens when the lights are left on? Transcriptomic and phenotypic habituation to light pollution" in iScience.
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Omar A. Quintero-Carmona, associate professor of biology, presented “Differential Dynamics of Cytoskeletal Motors, Their Adapters, and the Mitochondrial Outer Membrane” at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society. The talk showcased the research he completed in partnership with University of Richmond undergraduate students Lili Mitchell, ‘21, Kathryn Reda, ‘23, Hijab Fatima, ‘20, and Claudia E. Vasquez, ‘23.
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Amy Treonis, associate professor of biology, published “Soil Nematode Communities Vary Among Populations of the Iconic Desert Plant, Welwitschia mirabilis” in Pedobiologia.
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University of Richmond students Marcos Hendler and Aine MacDermott have each been awarded a prestigious Beckman Foundation Scholarship to support faculty-mentored student research in the sciences.
Quintero-Carmona will work closely with the team that manages education and engagement.
Jonathan Richardson, biology professor, is quoted.
Research by Peter Smallwood, biology professor, and Todd Lookingbill, biology and geography professor, is highlighted.
Biology professor Angie Hilliker, a molecular biologist, authored this piece.
Biology professor Peter Smallwood and geography professor Todd Lookingbill coauthored this piece, which first appeared in The Conversation in November 2019.
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