Fall 2022 Outstanding Biology Learning Assistant Awards
The Biology Department recognized the hard work and innovation of all of our Learning Assistants (LAs) by presenting “The Outstanding Learning Assistant Award” to two groups of Biology LAs for the fall 2022 semester. These students presented posters that were judged by the Biology Honors Committee to best outline procedures... More
Tom Gilmore Renews BU SURF Award
Dr. Tom Gilmore received funding for BU’s SURF Program. The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program is dedicated to promoting access to graduate education for talented undergraduate students, specifically, those from minority groups that are underrepresented in the sciences. The program is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF-REU) and... More
Brandon Güell Wins BU’s Inaugural Research Photo Contest
PhD candidate Brandon Güell of the Warkentin Lab is the winner of BU's inaugural research photo contest in the field research category (entry pictured above). The competition had more than 120 entries in three categories—field research, research happening at BU, and research imaging—with three winners and six runners-up chosen by... More
Spring 2022 Undergraduate Research Award Winners
Congratulations to Maria Salgado Patino, Russell Laman, and Jamie Li for receiving the Spring 2022 Undergraduate Research Award. This annual award is given to outstanding seniors of any major who are performing research in Biology Department labs by the Biology Research and Honors Committee. Maria Salgado (Neuroscience and Psychology) conducted her... More
Brandon Güell Among Wildlife Photographer of the Year Winners
PhD candidate Brandon Güell of the Warkentin Lab is among the list of winners for the Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year for his entry "Treefrog Pool Party" (pictured above). You can read more about his winning shot and explore some of the other entries here. Congratulations, Brandon!
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 State University. Dr. Wold is a strong advocate of undergraduate research... More
Maria Jose Salazar Nicholls Receives 2022 Thomas H. Kunz Award
Maria Jose Salazar Nicholls of the Warkentin Lab is this year’s recipient of the Thomas H. Kunz Award. Her thesis work focuses on the mechanisms enabling adaptive embryo behavior in red-eyed treefrogs, Agalychnis callidryas. Maria completed her BS at Pontifical Catholic University in Ecuador, where she worked in the Developmental... More
Daniel Wuitchik Receives Dana Wright Fellowship
Daniel Wuitchik of the Davies Lab is the 2022 recipient of the Dana Wright Fellowship. Daniel's research explores the effects of temperature on stress, symbiosis, and patterns of diversity in marine invertebrates. He leverages modern genomic tools, coupled with phenotypic assays of thermal performance to better understand how these invertebrates respond... 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 Anthropogenic Stress.” This award is given for excellence in scholarship... More
2022 Biology Graduate Teaching Awards
The Biology Graduate Committee is delighted to announce the winners of the Department’s graduate teaching awards: E Schlatter as the winner of the 2021-2022 Outstanding Teaching Fellow in Biology award for teaching excellence over the past year. E served the Department as a teaching fellow in for Genetics (BI 206), for... More