Biology

USU Trustee Professor James A. "Jim" MacMahon, an ecologist whose research, teaching and administrative career at Utah State spanned more than 40 years, died May 6, 2024, at age 85. MacMahon was renowned for his scholarship, teaching, mentorship, leadersh...

Situated in the basement of The Junction dining hall, just north of Richards Hall at about 750 North 1050 East, the Intermountain Herbarium is the largest public herbarium in the Intermountain West. The facility houses more than 300,000 specimens and supp...

With National Science Foundation funding, faculty members Lauren Lucas and Zach Gompert create Research, Scholarship and Creative Inquiry-Intensive course that leads fledgling researchers, step-by-step, through the scientific inquiry process.

For more than a decade, Utah State University scholars have pioneered research on the production and structure of synthetic spider silk. Building on lessons learned, researchers in the lab of biology faculty member Justin Jones are branching into organism...