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Professor Tom Jurik is offering a new seminar in the Spring 2020 semester for students interested in exploring how climate change impacts biology.  The seminar will count as an advanced biology course for Biology majors and is graded on

The Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology has recently received a generous gift that enables the Biology Program and Genetics Program to offer a new scholarship.  The donors created this fund to honor the legacy and profess

A new advanced biology course will be offered Spring 2020 taught by Dr. Dior Kelley (GDCB).  

Topics in Cell Biology (BIOL 428) will be offered again for the Spring 2020 semester!  This course will be co-taught by Dr. Mohan Gupta and Dr. Diane Bassham. 

This past summer, the Biology faculty voted on two proposals brought forward by the Biology Program Committee.  The results of these votes mean a few changes in Biology Program degree requirements for students.  

Dr. Xun Gu will be teaching an undergraduate-level introduction to transcriptome genomics this coming Fall 2019.  For more information about this opportunity, see here.

All biology majors must complete ecology (BIOL 312) to complete their Bachelor of Science in the program.  It includes both lecture and laboratory components in a single course.

This coming Fall, Dr. Xun Gu will be offering a BIOL 495 seminar on topics related to comparative genomics of transcriptomes (gene expressions) at an introductory level.

A new seminar course (BIOL 495) taught by Eve Wurtele will be offered in Fall 2018.

A new seminar course (BIOL 495) taught by Steven Howell will be offered in Fall 2018.  The course will discuss the challenges of feeding a growing human population over the next several decades.

The Department of Biomedical Sciences, housed within the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University, offers a one-year, non-thesist master's program in Biomedical Sciences.

A new experimental course on macroevolution (BIOL 465X) is being offered for Spring 2018.

Our peer mentors are ready and able to assist students taking BIOL 211+L and BIOL 212+L during the Fall 2017 semester, as well as with other introductory courses such as chemistry.

A new 1 credit course is available at Iowa State for students interested in research.

This coming Fall 2017 a new seminar (BIOL 495) will be offered.  The course will be structured like a journal club and involve weekly meetings with discussions led by classmates on the topics of ecology and evolutionary biology.

The Biological Sciences Club (BSC) has launched a more accessible Facebook page.