Nicole Carter, BMB Alum, Receives NIH Predoctoral Award
The Biology Department congratulates Nicole Carter (CAS '17) on receiving the Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual Research Service Award. This award allows predoctoral students to have mentored research training while working on their dissertation research. Nicole is currently a student at... More
BMB Alum, Oscar Lam, Receives NIH Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award
The Biology Department congratulates a recent BMB alumni, Oscar Lam (CAS '20), on his acceptance into the National Institutes of Health's Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA). This program allows recent college grads the chance to spend one to two... More
Graduating Senior, Abigail Gugel, Named BU Woman of the Year
Abigail Gugel, a senior Biology major and participant on Boston University women's cross country and track & field teams, was named Boston University Woman of the Year. The Boston University Woman of the Year Award honors the female student-athlete who... More
Biology Alum, Dr. Loren Wold, Featured in Marketplace Tech Story on COVID-19 Testing
Biology alumnus, Dr. Loren Wold (CAS '97), was featured in a Marketplace Tech story on COVID-19 testing. Last summer the Biology Department announced the first ever Dr. Loren E. Wold Research Award recipients, pictured above with Dr. Wold center. This... More
Richard Primack and Alum Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie Receive ESA’s George Mercer Award
Dr. Richard Primack and his former PhD student, Dr. Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie (GRS '17), received this year's Ecological Society of America's George Mercer Award for their paper “Phenological mismatch with trees reduces wildflower carbon budgets.” The Mercer Award recognizes an outstanding, More
Biology Graduate Students and Alumni Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
The awardees and honorable mentions for the 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition were recently posted and several Biology & MCBB students were recognized. MCBB Ph.D. student Marisol Dothard, Biology Ph.D. student Zoey Werbin in the Bhatnagar lab, and M.S. More
Remembering Sir Hans Kornberg
The Department of Biology will be hosting a memorial service for Sir Hans Kornberg on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. All are welcome to attend and RSVPs are kindly requested. The Department of Biology at Boston University mourns the loss of Sir... More
Professor Primack Receives Two National Science Foundation Grants
Biology Professor Richard Primack recently received two new National Foundation grants. The first for $242,000, “Phenological mismatch between trees and wildflowers mediated by environmental variability and plant invasions”, builds on the observations of Henry David Thoreau, and is a... More
Alum Amanda Gallinat Finds New England Migratory Birds Seek Native Food
Alum Dr. Amanda Gallinat and Dr. Richard Primack were recently published in the journal Biological Conservation. "Can invasive species replace native species as a resource for birds under climate change? A case study on bird-fruit interactions" finds that New England migratory birds... More
Jesse Delia Receives 2019 Belamarich Award
Dr. Jesse Delia of the Warkentin Lab was selected as the winner of the 2019 Belamarich Award for his doctoral dissertation in Biology titled “Ecology and Evolution of Parent-Embryo Interactions in Neotropical Glassfrogs.” This award is given annually to a... More