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Recent news from the Department of Biology

A hand grabbing art materials to draw the pieces of wood on the table.

The art in science: tackling climate change through creativity and collaboration

Scholars team up to discuss the intersection between art, biology and fieldwork in crafting solutions to contemporary issues

Two men dressed in fatigues with bright scarves around their necks sit in the forest.

Cambodian forest defenders at risk for exposing illegal logging

Forests which sustained Cambodia’s Indigenous people are falling to illicit logging

A woman looks at fish tanks in a research lab.

Evolutionary biologist Misty Riddle receives NSF CAREER Award

Riddle will explore the genetic basis of host-microbiome interactions