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09/21/2026

Students, join the TriBeta biological honor society for pottery painting and a great community get-together this Friday!

09/18/2026

Dr. Karen Gomez, who serves as Topic Co-Editor, is pleased to invite researchers to submit their work to the Research Topic “Mechanistic Pathways Linking Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Plant Defense, and Insect Herbivores” in Frontiers in Plant Science. Frontiers https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/83711/mechanistic-pathways-linking-arbuscular-mycorrhizal-fungi-plant-defense-and-insect-herbivores

09/17/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Ella Boyd, Katie Byrne, and Kira Villarreal for representing the University of Northern Colorado at the Beta Beta Beta National Honor Society Annual Convention in Tallahassee, Florida, this May.

We are especially proud to celebrate Kira Villarreal's second-place finish in the Biomedical Presentations category. 🥈

In addition, the team representing UNC's TriBeta chapter earned the prestigious NMDP Award. 🏅

These accomplishments reflect the hard work, dedication, and excellence of our students in research and scholarship. We are incredibly proud of how they represented our department and UNC on the national stage.

09/15/2026

We are very pleased to welcome UNC's own Dr. Kamlesh Yadav as our seminar speaker this week. Please join us on Friday at 3:35 in Ross 1010. All seminars are free and open to the public!

Read more about Dr. Yadav's research here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PjK8kgYAAAAJ&hl=en

09/11/2026

New research alert! Drs. Duke and Holt recently published this article offering two clear definitions of climate change acceptance to help improve climate education and research.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0356374

09/08/2026

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Stacey Smith from the CU Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as our seminar speaker this week. Please join us in Ross 1010 at 3:35 on Friday.

09/03/2026

As we settle in to Fall 2026, let's take a moment to look back on department highlights from 2025-26. They include millions of dollars in grant funding, award-winning faculty pursuits, global collaborations, pedagogical innovations, and a "Nature" cover. Not a bad year.

09/01/2026

We welcome Dr. Lily Edwards-Callaway from the CSU Department of Animal Sciences as our seminar speaker this week. Please join us in Ross 1010 at 3:35 on Friday.

08/26/2026

Dr. Pullen recently led a 3+ year study on immunology taught in US medical schools for the American Association of Immunologists Education Committee with Aimee Pugh-Bernard (CU Anschutz) Their task force of medical educators from 8 collaborating institutions represented both MD and DO programs. What did they find? Read on. . .

* Why we did this: There was no prior systematic effort to establish immunology content guidelines for medical school. Immunology is a distributed system that affects all physiology & pathology; most of the successful breakthrough medical advances in the past 20-years directly involve manipulating the immune system. Many physicians who did not specialize in immunology reported difficulty describing the mechanisms of how such medical advances work and independently determining when to prescribe them. Additionally, the diversity of how immunology is taught has never been researched – this was motivated by assessing the time pressures on immunology.

* What we did: We surveyed all accredited and pre-accredited medical schools (MD and DO) as of August 2023 – 209 institutions at the time. We asked faculty basic questions of how, who, what, and when immunology is taught. We also developed content recommendations from their responses, sent these out for survey again for feedback and editing, and then we had live feedback sessions and presentations at the annual immunology conference over two year cycles (2025 and 2026).

* What we found/recommend: A lot of institutions are under intense time pressure that has significantly reduced the time available to teach immunology. Instructors were not sure how to parse content other than relying on board exam prep. The research recommends 15 foundational topics with aligned content learning objectives and conditions for case studies. These were workshopped and edited by the community of medical immunology educators.

* What future use of impact will this have: Immunology educators in medical schools will now have a rigorous, evidence-based study to turn to when revising their curricula. Additionally, the study also provides key demographic data that can be used to leverage curricular and pedagogical reforms attached to regular re-accreditation cycles (e.g., justifying an amount of time to dedicate to immunology didactics in pre-clinical years).

08/24/2026

Welcome back UNC students & faculty! Campus is roaring 🐻 and biology is buzzing 🐝. Let’s make this our best year ever.

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