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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 […]

Semi-Annual Faculty/Staff take on the Graduate Students Kickball Game

Team of Biological Sciences graduate students and professors find impact of pre-existing conditions on COVID-19 Team of Biological Sciences graduate students and professors find impact of pre-existing conditions on COVID-19

Polly Rogers, a Sophomore at UNC Charlotte, tragically passed away in May 2018. She was young, beautiful, and full of life. Polly was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority at UNC Charlotte and was studying special education in the Cato College of Education. She was warm and very caring to all who had the […]

The Department of Biological Sciences mourns the loss of one of our undergraduate major students sophomore Rita De Labra Saucedo who passed away on May 13, 2021.

2021 Graduate Student Annual Awards Publication: Daniel Kepple Oral Presentation: Nitika Poster Presentation: Cheikh Dieng Teaching Assistant (1000-2000 level): Katherine Holtzman Teaching Assistant (3000-4000 level): Kiran Lalwani Outreach: Danielle Torp

Third-year biology major DeAndre Guyton, fueled by his passion to serve others, has his sights on medical school following graduation. UNC Charlotte Leading in African American Degrees

Congratulations to our graduate student, Farida Yasmin, who received the very prestigious and competitive award: “DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics” from Genetics Society of America (GSA). The selection is based on the significance of research, productivity including publication record, service and leadership. Only 9-10 graduate students/postdocs receive this award each cycle and […]

Dr. Richard Chi is a cell biologist who is trying to figure out what’s for dinner― at the cellular level. Cells need to eat and drink, just like us! However, instead of the many food options we have at our whim, cellular diet is restricted to a constant intake of environmental fluids and nutrients, referred […]