Biology

Rooted in the soil as they are, plants have access only to what is immediately available in their environment — water, nutrients, sunlight, and temperature. Their immediate circumstances determine whether they live and reproduce, or wither and die. Even s...

Doctoral teaching assistant Megan Raddatz, standing, assists undergrad Kaleb Keller at a recording rig from the BIOL 5625 neurophysiology lab class. Students in the new course held a poster session Dec. 7.

John Flores, principal lecturer in the Public Health program of USU’s Department of Biology, was recognized during the 39th annual Utah Conference on Safety and Industrial Hygiene on Oct. 13-14, 2022, at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The confe...

USU alum Samridhi Chaturvedi PhD’19 says: “Our study shows that both similar ecological conditions, which drive natural selection, and similar pools of genetic variation, which provide the material for evolution, are critical for generating repeated evolu...

Bumble bees, with their large size and colorful, fluffy appearance, are among the most well-known species of bees and, like a number of species around the globe, are in steep decline. USU biologist Dr. Joseph Wilson says: “Our exercise suggests North Amer...