October 3, 2025 Above: Red-cheeked Cordonbleu. Credit: Çağan Şekercioğlu Çağan Şekercioğlu was an ambitious, but perhaps naive graduate student when, 26 years ago, he embarked on a simple data-compilation project that would soon evolve into a massive career-defining achievement. With the help of countless students and volunteers, the University of Utah conservation biologist has finally released […]| School of Biological Sciences
October 3, 2025 Above: Steven Naleway, left, and Atul Agrawal examine a fungal culture growing in a liquid medium in Naleway’s lab at the University of...| www.biology.utah.edu
September 22, 2025 Above: The woodrat (genus: Neotoma) It’s not easy eating green, as most plants have chemical defenses to deter would-be grazers. Getting enough to...| www.biology.utah.edu
September 18, 2025 Above: Abigail Bruzual In June 2021, I moved to the United States from Quito, Ecuador, for my final year of high school and to pursue a degree at the University of Utah. While I have a wide range of interests, my early involvement in research—starting with the Science Research Initiative (SRI) freshman year—marked […]| School of Biological Sciences
‘Greatest honor I could possibly receive’ September 12, 2025 Above: Phyllis “Lissy” Coley at the newly named Phyllis D. Coley Trail on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Credit: Jorge Aleman “I first went to Barro Colorado Island in 1975, where I did my thesis, postdoc and many more years of research, most with Tom,” says Phyllis […]| School of Biological Sciences
September 8, 2025 Above: A 36 kg male wolf (Canis lupus) named “Shaggy” by taggers with the environmental organization Kuzey Doga. Not more than five minutes after being tagged, the animal was gone. Nathan Murthy, a senior at the University of Utah majoring in Earth and Environmental Science recently returned from doing field work in Turkey. This is the second […]| School of Biological Sciences
August 19, 2025 Above: “Rufous-tailed Scrub Robbins in-hand: These Scrub Robbins were caught in the same round. Alva found one and Maria found one. Since they are good friends, they were excited to show each other their cool finds. They were surprised to find out that they had found the same birds.” All photos: courtesy […]| School of Biological Sciences
August 14, 2025 Above: Great Salt Lake Utah’s Great Salt Lake is a place of extremes, and its ecosystem is evidence that life can thrive under some of Earth’s most hostile conditions. Scientist say it may hold clues for life on other planets, too, especially Mars, which was once replete with salty lakes. Specifically, researchers […]| School of Biological Sciences
July 30, 2025 Carbon ‘off-sets’ are not working. U-led research results in roadmap for harnessing Earth’s natural processes to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide A lot of the climate-altering carbon pollution we humans release into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels gets drawn into Earth’s oceans and landscapes through natural processes, mostly through photosynthesis as plants […]| School of Biological Sciences
July 1, 2025 Above: In his lab, David Carrier: “If you’re going to study fighting, sometimes you have to get punched in the face.” An evolutionary biologist, boundary pusher and occasional lab hazard, Dave Carrier didn’t just study evolution. He tested it — on himself, on treadmills, and sometimes in the ring. Over a career spanning more […]| School of Biological Sciences
March 18, 2025 Above: Shrinivasan “Cheenu” Raghuraman “If you close your eyes and put your fingers together above your head, you know exactly where the...| www.biology.utah.edu
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