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Harrison Awards for Full-Time Summer Research 2024
Paige Chambers and Anya Majji each received the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award to support their independent research projects for...

Tracy Larson
Mar 12, 20241 min read


Annual Biological Sciences Research Symposium, April 12, 2024
Tracy, Chair of the Community Committee, is partnering with the first-year Biology graduate students to organize the second Annual...

Tracy Larson
Mar 10, 20241 min read


Hosting Dr. Elena Blanco-Suarez for Seminar
On October 20, 2023, Tracy will host Dr. Elena Blanco-Suarez, Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Neuroscience, for her seminar...

Tracy Larson
Feb 23, 20241 min read


Hosting Dr. Josh Gross for Seminar
On October 20, 2023, Tracy will host Dr. Josh Gross, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, for a seminar titled,...

Tracy Larson
Oct 3, 20231 min read


Release of the first Biology Department Newsletter
To highlight and celebrate the ‘tangled bank’ of activities that make our department the remarkable community it is, Doug Taylor, Chair...

Tracy Larson
Sep 30, 20231 min read


Tracy receives $2.5mil MIRA R35!
Tracy Larson received a MIRA R35 ESI from the National Institute of General Medicine to study the limits of degeneration and regeneration...

Tracy Larson
Sep 30, 20231 min read


Harrison Awards for Full-Time Summer Research 2023
Alex Perez and Kathryn Chung each received the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award to support their independent research projects for...

Tracy Larson
Mar 28, 20231 min read


Creation of the Biology Outreach and Inclusion Program
The Department of Biology graduate students have formed a club to promote outreach activities in the local and regional communities...

Tracy Larson
Oct 1, 20201 min read


STEM Middle School Visit
We held our first annual STEM Middle School Visit in February 2020, in which more than 130 students from two regional middle schools...

Tracy Larson
Feb 29, 20201 min read
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