Biology

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...

USU alumna and Air Force bionenvironmental engineering officer Isabella Muffoletto was deployed with the “Red Tails” 332d Medical Expeditionary Group to the Middle East (undisclosed location), as part of Operation Inherent Resolve in 2021.

USU plant biologist Carl Rothfels, director of USU's Intermountain Herbarium and associate professor in the Department of Biology and the USU Ecology Center, is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award.