Berndtson receives teaching award
Senior Lecturer Amy Berndtson has been awarded the David and Cheryl Morley Career Distinguished Teaching Award.
2019 News
IU Biology alum presents inaugural Minority Alumni Speaker Series lecture
Antiño Allen [M.A. 2000, Ph.D 2010] returns to IU to discuss his experiences as a graduate student and as a young faculty member as well as to present a scientific lecture.
IU Herbarium completes massive plant digitization project
The digitization of more than 160,000 plant specimens will provide access to data to researchers across the globe.
NSF awards IU biologist $860,000 to study evolutionary development
Professor Armin Moczek will use dung beetles to contrast two ways that new traits emerge in species.
Research highlights promise of IU's newly signed agreements with Sorbonne
A study led by Professor David Kehoe of IU Biology and Frédéric Partensky of Sorbonne University published in PNAS exemplifies the great partnership between IU and Sorbonne University to develop research and student exchanges.
IU Ph.D. student earns graduate award for bacterial research
IU Ph.D. student Courtney Ellison has been named a 2019 recipient of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Indiana University named top producer for Fulbright U.S. Student Program
IU Biology alumna Madeline Danforth, who earned her B.S. in microbiology with departmental honors last May, is one of the 2018-19 recipients—receiving a Fulbright award to teach English in Mexico.
Dalia named outstanding junior faculty member
Assistant Professor Ankur Dalia is recipient of Indiana University Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
Get ready for IU Day!
Celebrate IU Day (April 10, 2019) with the IU Department of Biology.
IU scientist embarks on Caribbean 'treasure hunt' in search of flies and wasps
Professor Dan Tracey and graduate student Jeremy Davis are on a three-month excursion across the Caribbean to collect flies and wasps to research the evolutionary changes in Drosophila.
Biologist Jay Lennon elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
IU Professor of Biology Jay Lennon has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, an honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology.
IU biologists' discovery opens up new research directions in plant biology
Professor Roger Innes, graduate student Brian Rutter, and lab members have developed protocols for purifying and analyzing plant exosomes.
IU's environmental Grand Challenge brings bird banding station to Bloomington
Distinguished Professor of Biology Ellen Ketterson and Bloomington resident Eve Cusack established a bird banding station, entwining science with education.
IU Ph.D. student qualifies for Olympic trials in marathon
Olivia Ballew, a Ph.D. candidate in the Lacefield lab, balances running and graduate school.
Earliest records of fruit fly genetics research donated to Indiana University
IU's international reputation for Drosophila research attracts donation of collection for preservation.
IU study predicts how air pollutants from U.S. forest soils will increase with climate change
Tree changes in the midwest and eastern U.S. will lead to more atmospheric chemicals that cause air pollution and respiratory illness.
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