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Undergraduate students in the Department of Biological Sciences have been invited to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, the oldest and most prestigious academic honor society in the United States. They are: Patrick Deegan, Yuleny Gomez Rodriguez, Mckenzie Miller, Rei Rama, Yashushi Yang, Rachel Hayes, and Madison Snyder. Nominees to Phi Beta Kappa […]

Dr. Brittany Johnson was awarded two grants this year: NIH R03 entitled Molecular mechanisms underlying glial inflammatory responses to Neisseria meningitidis: A pilot study and NIH R03 entitled RIG-I as a therapeutic target for bacterial CNS infection: A pilot study. Congratulations to our newest Assistant Professor.

Dr. Adam Reitzel is the 2021-2022 HHarshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentor Award winner! Dr. Adam Reitzel is the 2021-2022 HHarshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentor Award winner!

CIPHER is led by Adam Reitzel, Professor of Biological Sciences, and Dan Janies, the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics. They are joined by more than 20 Charlotte faculty colleagues with expertise in computer science, bioinformatics, software and information systems, biological sciences, chemistry, mathematics and statistics, geographical information systems, public health, data […]

For UNC Charlotte biochemist Andrew Truman, a quest for new and better treatments for cancers and neurological diseases drives his research into protein folding and the DNA damage response, along with his desire to advance science broadly. To fund his work, he has received three significant National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants expected to total […]

Drs. Carrie Wells and Michelle Pass along with Ms. Jane Walsh have published “Face-to-face vs. Online Asynchronous Teaching in a Conservation Biology Course” in the journal Online Learning. This study resulted from a SoTL grant Drs. Wells and Pass received in Spring 2019. The team reports no difference in learning outcomes between face-to-face and online […]

Saturday, Sept 18th was the inaugural Session of the Pre-College Programs’ Saturday Academy Program. This Fall the Biology Graduate Student Outreach (BGO) group will be teaching a Saturday class once a month in the Woodward teaching labs. High school students will take the BGO designed (and taught) lab course through the STEM Pre-College Program run […]

Biology faculty top $4 million in research funding this year Biology faculty top $4 million in research funding this year

The New Science Building (SCIENC) opens with BIOL courses Anatomy and Physiology, Ecology, and Genetics. Teaching labs, additional courses, and state-of-the-art research facilities will be open in January 2022. SCIENC will meet growing demand and enrollment at UNC Charlotte which has increased 142 percent since 1985. This Fall BIOL supports >1300 undergraduate majors and 70 […]

Honors student Diana Renteria Alvarez is co-first author on a major publication. Diana performed her Honors research with Dr. Chakrabarti and his lab team. This publication is in a popular RNA journal: ‘RNA Biology‘. Three labs were competing to publish this work around the same time and Diana and her co-authors were lucky to publish […]