Join us for our Winter 2025 grad student seminar series!

Presenting...
Simply the best; how armor morphologies reduce drag in poachers (Agonidae)
By: Meg Vandenberg (Summers Lab)

Increased stocking density ameliorates oyster heat stress by slowing thermal diffusion
By: Grace Leuchtenberger (Carrington Lab)

Join us for our Winter 2025 grad student seminar series!

Presenting...
Effects of locomotion strata on squirrel countershading
By: Edú Guerra (Santana Lab)

Undertaking behaviors in the common eastern bumblebee Bombus impatiens
By: Stephanie Zhu (Wang Lab)

Constraints on thermoregulation explain disruptive selection on body size after an historic heatwave.
By: Jack Litle (Carrington Lab)

Join us for our Autumn 2024 grad student seminar series!

Presenting...
Flowering genes in eelgrass and their potential functions
By: Christine Nolan (Imaizumi Lab)

Visualizing inequities: A step toward equitable student outcomes
By: Rachel Potter (Brosi Lab)

Agent-based modeling of Drosophila Neurogenesis
By: Sophia Jannetty (Bagheri Lab)

Join us for our Autumn 2024 grad student seminar series!

Presenting...
Reconstructing the Origin of Reproductive Function for the Flower Development Gene LEAFY
By: Hannah McConnell (Di Stilio Lab)

Birds under the microscope
By: Yasmeen Erritouni (Leaché/Rico-Guevara Lab)

Investigating the influence of fruit-dwelling microbes on mosquito attraction
By: Melissa Leon Norena (Riffell Lab)

Neuroscience is a rapidly evolving field. As the frontier of neuroscience expands, it is leaving a wide gap between what the public (and our students) know, and how the field thinks about computations happening in the nervous system. Educators and researchers alike are tasked with the question of how we should train the next generation of neuroscientists.

Join us for our Autumn 2024 grad student seminar series!

Presenting...
Sweet Old Bats: Morphological and Physiological Signs of Senescence in Wild Fruit and Nectar Bats
By: Andrea Bernal (Santana/Rico-Guevara Lab)

Trophic level responses to different longline densities and clustering
By: Maria Garcia (Ruesink Lab)

Born to Shine: Feather transcriptomes suggest constitutive iridescence in hummingbirds
By: Yasmeen Erritouni (Leaché/Rico-Guevara Lab)

In 2002, author Robin D.G. Kelley published the book "Freedom Dreams," examining the efforts of various social movements across the African Diaspora. In this text, Dr. Kelley posed the questions:

“How do we produce a vision that enables us to see beyond our immediate ordeals?”
“How do we transcend bitterness and cynicism and embrace love, hope, and an all-encompassing dream of freedom, especially in these rough times?”

As educators, we expand the reach of our classrooms when we create inclusive and welcoming environments that invite students to apply their learning in novel ways. Our evidence-based teaching strategies allow students to scaffold their learning and see deep connections between different organizational levels and subfields of biology. Not only do we strive to create meaningful learning experiences within the classroom, but our scholarship and service shape our students’ broader educational experiences.