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Students

Celebrating undergraduate excellence in science

Science was well represented at the 2015 Celebrating Undergraduate Excellence event May 14

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Climate and Oceans

Rethinking the marine carbon cycle

Professor Stephen Giovannoni was recently published in Science Magazine

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Data, AI and Robotics

Bio+Math

In the last two years, the College of Science has focused on augmenting its expertise in data and life sciences with strategic hires

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Mathematics

Math professor takes interdisciplinary approach to climate and energy

Professor Malgorzata Peszynska's current NSF-funded research takes an interdisciplinary approach to models important for global climate and energy studies.

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Integrative Biology

Discover: Our collection of 3 million specimens of insects

Shining the light on arthropods

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Integrative Biology

Powerhouse PISCO

Marine ecologist Bruce Menge and PISCO researchers have attracted international attention.

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Sustainable Energy and Materials

Materials revolution

What keeps our materials scientists up at night is how to expand the “chemistry toolbox” and make materials more sustainable, efficient and functional.

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Students

Student spotlight

Claire Ostertag-Hill is using DNA sequencing and genetic screening tools to analyze virus genes

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Students

BioHealth Sciences student featured in the Barometer

"Everything I learned in biology I feel like is now applicable.”

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Integrative Biology

Global warming to increase ocean upwelling

A new study warns that global warming may increase ocean upwelling by the end of this century.

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Integrative Biology

Amber fossil links early grass, dinosaurs and fungus to LSD

A perfectly preserved amber fossil provides evidence of the earliest grass specimen ever discovered.

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Chemistry

Chemists capture elusive iron compound

Chemistry researchers have successfully isolated a much-sought after iron compound—the most abundant form of iron in natural systems.