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Inaugural Session of the Pre-College Programs’ Saturday Academy Program
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 Biology faculty top $4 million in research funding this year
New Science Building
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
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 Kickball Game
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 Team of Biological Sciences graduate students and professors find impact of pre-existing conditions on COVID-19
UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens opens Polly’s Garden to honor former undergraduate student
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 […]
Mourning the loss of Rita De Labra Saucedo
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
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 fueled by his passion to serve others
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