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The Utah State University Department of Biology formed in 1973, combining the departments of Botany, Bacteriology, and Public Health, with Gene Miller as the first Department Head.
03/11/2016
USU gets funding for long-awaited Biological Sciences Building After several years of requests by school officials, the Utah Legislature on Thursday approved $38 million for a new Biological Sciences Building at Utah State University.
02/06/2015
Congratulations to the Lewis Team at U-STaR on the opening of the Bioproducts Scale-Up Facility on the innovation campus!
Synthetic spider silk now can be produced in quantities for commercial use.
11/19/2014
The Biology Graduate Student Association is hosting a silent auction on Friday, 5 December, featuring homemade items from Biology Deparment members as well as items from Logan businesses. There also will be a raffle. Please see the attached flyer for details.
All proceeds support Biology Department graduate students.
11/19/2014
PLEASE NOTE: This is the re-scheduled seminar for Dr. Etchberger. The date for her seminas is tomorrow, 2 DECEMBER 2014. Wrong date on this flyer. The corrected flyer is below.
Dr. Lianna Etchberger, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Biology at the Uintah Basin campus of Utah State University, will present "Getting Students to Do the Work" as part of the USU Biology Seminar series on Tuesday, 2 December 2014, at 3:30pm in BNR 202a. Please see the attached flyer for all of the revised details.
Refreshments will be served at the Logan campus at 3:15pm.
11/17/2014
The USU Deparment of Biology Fall 2014 Undergraduate Symposium will take place on 4 December 2014, 2:00pm - 4:00pm in the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Biology-Natural Resources Foyer.. Come see what our undergraduate researchers have been studying this term. Please see the attached flyer for details.
Refreshments will be served.
11/10/2014
Dr. Donald Price will present "Population Phylogeography, Local Adaptation and Speciation in Hawaiian Picture Wing Drosophila" as part of the USU Biology Seminar series. Please see the attached flyer for details.
Refreshments will be served at the Logan campus at 3:15pm.
11/04/2014
Aaron Duffy, doctoral candidate of Paul Wolf, will present "Synthesizing Research and Education: Ecology and Genetics of Independent Fern Gametophytes and Teaching Science Inquiry and Content through Simulations" as part of his dissertation defense on Friday, 7th November 2014, in the Natural Resources building (NR 204) at 8:30am.
Refreshment will be served at the Logan campus at 8:15am. Please see the attached flyer for additional details.
10/28/2014
Biologist Birthday
"Jonas Edward Salk (USA, October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine."
For an introduction to his work, please visit the full Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk.
10/09/2014
Michael Winham, Ph. D., Curator of Vascular Plants in the Duke Herbarium at the Department of Biology of Duke University, will present "Revving the Evolutionary Engine: Speciation and Extinction via Hybridization in Boechera (Brassicaceae)" as part of the USU Biology Seminar series at 3:30pm on 14 OCtober 2014 in BNR 202a. Please see the attached flyer for details.
10/06/2014
Xiao Xiao, doctoral candidate of Ethan White, will present "Process- and Constraint-Based Approaches for Macroecological Patterns" as part of her dissertation defense on Thursday, 16 October 2014, at 10:00am in BNR 202a.
10/06/2014
The USU Ecology Center and the Departments of Biology and Environment & Society present Caroline Savitzky, the Madagascar Population-Health-Environment Coordinator for Blue Ventures Conservation, who will give a special seminar entitled "Empowering Communities to Live with the Sea: An Integrated Approach to Conservation, Community Health, and Livelihoods in Southwest Madagascar" on Wednesday, 8 October 2014, at 3:00pm in BNR 202a. Please see the attached flyer for details.
10/03/2014
USU Biology associate professor Ethan White was featured in the 30 September 2014 edition of NATURE in their "Toolbox Q&A" feature. He focused on the use of technology to clean up datasets gathered from research. Read the full UTAH STATE TODAY article here:
http://www.usu.edu/ust/index.cfm?article=54154&nl=396