Victoria Zdanowicz Receives 2024 Denton Award
Victoria Zdanowicz of the Knott and Scmitt Labs was selected as the winner of the 2024 Denton Award for her master’s research thesis in Biology titled “Local ecology and dietary selectivity at indicators of differing orangutan habitat quality within Gunung... More
Anna Berenson Receives 2024 Belamarich Award
Dr. Anna Berenson of the Fuxman Bass Lab was selected as the winner of the 2024 Belamarich Award for her doctoral dissertation in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry titled “Paired Yeast One-Hybrid Assays to Detect DNA-Binding Cooperativity and Antagonism Across Transcription Factors.”... More
2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Recipients and Honorable Mention
The awardees and honorable mentions for the 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition were recently posted and several Biology students were recognized. Biology PhD student Erin Frates of the Marlow Lab, Marine Science BA student Annabel Hughes of the Davies... More
BU Biology Alum, Professor Michael Dustin, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from The Royal Society
The Royal Society has awarded a prestigious fellowship to Professor Michael Dustin, who holds the Kennedy professorship at Oxford University. This recognition is in acknowledgment of his significant contributions to immunology research. Professor Dustin's groundbreaking work revolves around the concept... More
John Okechi Published in Conservation Science and Practice
Dr. John Okechi's paper, The ecological health of Lake Victoria (Kenya) in the face of growing cage aquaculture, was recently published in Conservation Science and Practice. The paper was based on his dissertation work completed while obtaining his PhD in... More
2022 Loren E. Wold Research Award Recipients
Douglas Alvarado, Erika Broeker, Evelyn Harper, and Judy Wong are the recipients of the Loren E. Wold Research Award for 2022 The Loren E. Wold Research Awards have been established by Biology alumnus Dr. Loren E. Wold (CAS ’97), a distinguished research scientist and Professor at Ohio... More
Sarah Speroff Receives 2022 Denton Award
Sarah Speroff of the Rotjan Lab was selected as the winner of the 2022 Denton Award for their master’s research thesis in biology titled “Stressed out in a Changed World: Investigating the Strength of the Temperate Coral Response to Acute and Chronic... More
Karina Scavo Lord and Leah Williams Receive 2022 Belamarich Award
This year, the Department of Biology is excited to announce that we have selected two winners for the 2022 Belamarich Award. This award is given annually to a recent PhD candidate for their outstanding doctoral dissertation completed in the Department... More
Javier Méndez Narváez Published in Ecology and Evolution
Biology PhD alum, Dr. Javier Méndez Narváez of the Warkentin Lab recently had his first dissertation chapter “Reproductive colonization of land by frogs: Embryos and larvae excrete urea to avoid ammonia toxicity” published in the journal Ecology and Evolution and highlighted... More
Leah Williams Published in Communications Biology
Dr. Leah Williams, who recently received her PhD in the Gilmore Lab in the Cell & Molecular Biology PhD program in Biology, was lead author on a paper published in December 2021 in the Nature journal Communications Biology. The study, entitled “Comparison... More