Undergraduate Rhea Smykalski investigates transgenerational effects of learning in butterflies in the Snell-Rood lab. You don’t usually think of butterflies as big thinkers, but even these flighty.

The University's iGEM team takes home top honors from the iGEM international synthetic biology competition at MIT. The Gopher iGEM team won gold for best environmental project at the International.

Post-doctoral researcher Jeremy Yoder investigates an unusual case of speciation through coevolution in the Mojave Desert. Like a landscape straight from the imagination of Dr. Seuss, the Mojave.

An update from Dean Trevor Ames, CBS Dean Search Committee Chair. The CBS Dean search committee has developed a job description and case statement for the college and the University of Minnesota.

New faculty member Mikael Elias studies bacteria that thrive in adverse conditions with an eye to developing new approaches to persistent problems. Ask Mikael Elias about his research interests and.

The College of Biological Sciences and the Freshwater Society present "Dwindling Groundwater Reserves as Viewed from Space." From Minnesota to California to a growing number of areas around the world.

The college’s young alums are doing great things in classrooms, labs, offices and beyond. H ere are the stories of 20 alumni under 30 who are making their mark.

This year’s undergraduate commencement speaker believes boosting science literacy is key to solving the world’s problems. Eric Jolly lives and breathes science education. As longtime president of the.

The new marine biology minor is ramping up and connecting students with global efforts to understand changing conditions in tropical reefs. People don’t usually associate the ocean or scuba diving in.