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Dr. Sally Koerner is a 2019 Bernard Glickman Dean’s Professor, an honor bestowed on an Assistant Professor in recognition of outstanding research and teaching with promise of continued great success.  Her research in biodiversity spans the globe, from South Africa to Montana and Wyoming, to the eastern North Carolina.  In… Continue reading…

This fall we are celebrating the retirement of Ms. Ann Somers after 31 years of service to UNCG. Ann will be joining the rank of emeritus faculty in the Department of Biology, will continue her research in conservation, environmental biology, and herpetology, while also continuing her work with the Department Geography,… Continue reading…

Dean John Kiss was on a panel for a group called Space4Women—and it was live from Berlin this Saturday.  It is a group sponsored by the United Nations and seeks to increase the number of women in STEM fields. The video can be found here! Great work!

Ellis, a doctoral candidate in Louis-Marie Bobay’s research group has received a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) to support her Environmental Health Science research.

Ants Ants are the janitors of the forest, cleaning up dead stuff and making way for new life. They sometimes help spread seeds to grow new plants, too. When ants build tunnels in the soil, they aerate it and recirculate nutrients essential for plant growth. Ants are also social animals, notes Olav… Continue reading…

Dr. John Z. Kiss, Biology Professor and Dean of College of Arts and Sciences UNCG featured in the Interplanetary Podcast (from London) discussing his career as a space biologist.  Interview starts at 29:15. THE INTERPLANETARY PODCAST Putting the Ace back into Space    https://www.interplanetary.org.uk/post/191-john-kiss-to-boldly-grow Here is another podcast: interview starts at… Continue reading…