This award was established by the family of Dr. Bruce M. Eberhart to honor exceptional students in the Biology Department who are academically excellent, actively involved in research, and demonstrate significant extracurricular contributions or service to the department, the university, the community as a whole, and even to fellow species… Continue reading…
UNCG was one of twelve institutions chosen to participate in the National Science Foundation-supported Council of Undergraduate Research (CUR) Transformations Project. Read more from UNCG’s Campus Weekly here!
Please join the Biology Department in congratulating Rada Petric, who was awarded the best student presentation at the 4th International Symposium on Acoustic Communication by Animals. This award recognizes outstanding research by students working in the field of acoustic communication. The week long international symposium was held in Omaha, Nebraska in July. Great job, Rada!!!
The Scientist recently featured the research conducted by Dean Kiss as a part of their story on basic research in space. The article can be found here.
Louis-Marie Bobay Dr. Bobay’s lab focuses on the evolution of microbial genomes and populations. They apply and develop computational approaches to elucidate the forces that shape the architecture and gene repertoire of microbial genomes. The lab is particularly interested in understanding the impact of population dynamics on microbial evolution. They… Continue reading…
One of our PhD students, Mr. Austin Gray, was selected as a fellow by the NC Sea Grant. He was also awarded a grant. We are really proud of Austin and the work he is doing with his advisor, Dr. Anne Hershey. Please read more about it here.
The Council on Undergraduate Research’s Transformations Project announced their institutional partners on 26 June 2017, and UNCG Biology was one of the partners. This project is funded by the National Science Foundation. Please read more about the project here.
Faulkner Elementary School 4th Grade Summer Campers visit UNCG for a campus tour and fun day learning science, courtesy of UNCG Biology and Chemistry Department Graduate Students and Instructors. The event was sponsored by the UNCG RISE Network. Joseph Mwangi, Jennifer Simpson and Joe Wang from the Chemistry Department exposed the… Continue reading…
Please watch this Triad Today interview with Dean John Kiss about his spaceflight experiments!
The Department of Biology and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UNCG have been selected to participate in the CUR Transformations project, an NSF-supported project of the Council of Undergraduate Research. The UNCG project is titled “A Collaborative Proposal Between Chemistry and Biology to Scaffold Undergraduate Research Across the… Continue reading…
