On May 18th, many Biology faculty and students participated in the NC DNA Day 5k and Festival. The event was held to raise funds to support North Carolina DNA Day – an annual event to inspire and educate the next … Read more

This year, the Carolina Biosciences Alumni Reunion hosted an Art of Science Competition. With over 50 entries, our own Jes Coyle from the Hurlbert lab received third place with her artwork entitled “Symbiotic Continent”. You can view winning images and … Read more

On May 6th, the middle school students from the Biology Pen Pal Program visited campus to tour some of the labs and meet their graduate student Pen Pals. The lab tours were graciously hosted by the following labs and graduate … Read more

Congratulations to Kyle Palmquist who was awarded with the 2013 Eugene P. Odum Award for having the best student paper at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists. Kyle is a CEE student in Bob Peet’s lab. Here … Read more

On April 3rd, a group of faculty and students from the Biology Department set out to Battle Park for a nature walk. Leading the walk were plant identifying expert Alan Weakley, bird spotting expert Allen Hurlbert, and bird call expert … Read more

The annual Darwin Day event was held on February 16, 2013 at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. Four UNC Biology labs were represented at the event, helping promote outreach and education on topics of evolution: Burch Lab – … Read more

The biology t-shirts have finally arrived! If you ordered one, please see Julie Lawrence (Coker 212) 8am-4pm M-F to pick it up. Didn’t order a shirt but would like one? We have a handful of extras for sale! See Julie … Read more

Check out the graduate student-run blog on Biodiversity: BioDiverse Perspectives. A product of the Dimensions of Biodiversity Distributed Graduate Seminar program, the blog features student posts from 14 different institutions worldwide, including UNC. Topics include those that students feel are … Read more

Congratulations to Lisa Bono, whose work with competition in bacteriophage landed her an article on National Geographic’s phenomena website!  

Biology Department T-shirts are officially available to order! The image for the shirt is below and will be printed on the front of dark grey, soft, fitted Next Level shirts (similar in style to American Apparel*). Shirts are $15 each … Read more