On Wednesday, April 8, 2026, the Unckless Lab visited Blue Valley North High School in Overland Park, Kansas, and completed a final analysis in a yearlong outreach program.
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Upcoming Seminar in Haworth 1005
Variously horrific- or alien-looking, many female anglerfishes sport long, protruding lures used for enticing prey or signaling during mating. Now, KU research gives new detail to the evolutionary history of anglerfishes’ lures.
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Congratulations to the 15 students from the Undergraduate Biology Program who received an Undergraduate Research Award (UGRA) from the Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships!
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🎧New Episode Alert!Plant Biology: How Plants Combat Heat Stress and Survive the Hottest Deserts.
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KU's Department of Molecular Biosciences awarded 3 graduate students with travel awards in the Spring of 2026
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Dr. Hotze $15,000 award was for a project tilted “ vCURE: Expanding Access to Virology Research Through a Herpesvirus-Focused CURE.”
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Trevor Rivers, associate teaching professor of
@kubiology.bsky.social, has been named KU Libraries 2026 Textbook Hero for extending his student-centered, curiosity-driven teaching style into the creation of open educational resources (OER). #OEWeek26
🗞️ rockcha.lk/tbherorivers
KU has recently been awarded a $2.2 million Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) grant from the NIH that will carry on this tradition for another five years.
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Native American School of Social Welfare MSW Scholarship. Application Requirements: (1) enrolled member of a federally recognized US tribal nation (2) demonstrate financial need via FAFSA and (3) apply and be accepted into a traditional MSW full-time program at the KU-Lawrence campus.
✨Scholarship Opportunity for MSW at KU✨
Students are eligible for $7000 per academic year for those admitted to our 2-year Traditional MSW program on the Lawrence campus.
Congratulations to Meredith Cole, Owen Dalton & Kennedy May, for being recognized by the University Scholars Program!
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🎧 Episode 2: How Ancient Primates crossed Oceans
This week's episode features Dr. Christopher Beard, who is senior curator of vertebrate paleontology @kunaturalhistory
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Congratulations to Xiaoqing (Sarah) Wu, who received the Steven F. Warren Research Achievement Award! Dr. Wu helped expand molecular cancer therapy research! news.ku.edu/news/article/ku-recognizes-researchers-improving-cancer-treatments-developing-advanced-electronics-and-exploring-galaxies
Thanks to Liz Mays for shooting the photos for this video! youtube.com/shorts/2sQ8-...
A great start to the semester with @jychoi.bsky.social's presentation "No end in sight, mysteries of the telomeric variation in plants"!
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We are proud to present Interview with a Biologist, a new podcast from KU Biology!
This week's episode features @FehrLab Dr. Fehr recently published research on PARP14, which shows major promise to target viral infections and inflammatory diseases.
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Extreme winter weather can mean frozen pipes or roof damage. These tips can help your home weather a dangerous winter storm.
The Undergraduate Biology Program is pleased to provide several scholarships and awards to students pursuing a major in the program.
All application materials for Undergraduate Biology Academic, Travel, or Research Scholarships and Awards are dueMarch 13, 2026. biology.ku.edu/Spring-Scholarships
A @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social book by a pair of @universityofkansas.bsky.social scholars is helping teachers incorporate games in learning. “We didn’t think of ourselves as gamers when we started. We were just instructors who wanted to make our courses more relevant.”
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🔬Undergraduate Majors: Biochemistry, Biology, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Human Biology, Microbiology, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology.
🌱Graduate Programs: Molecular Biosciences & Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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Wrapped 2025! Another Great Year behind us~ #jayhawks
After three months away @mblscience.bsky.social I return to the lab with these notes welcoming me back. It’s nice to know I was missed.
Join us for the KUCG seminar on Friday, December 5 at 4pm in 2048 Malott. Dr. Jennifer Gerton from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research will be presenting “ Bringing the dark matter of the genome to light”
Congratulation Dr. Egan! We wish you a very happy retirement!
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Excited and proud of all of the work that we've accomplished in Undergraduate Biology in 2024-2025! Take a peek, you might see someone familiar. 😊
Shoutout to Maria Losito for all of her hard work designing and creating this celebration of all that KU Biology accomplishes!
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