Biological sciences major William O'Connor honored Principal Lecturer Reid Compton and biological sciences major Tiffany Wang honored Distinguished University Professor Catherine Carr.

Created by alumni to honor their educator and mentor, this is the first endowed professorship in biology.

Professor Elizabeth Quinlan is building on more than a decade of research in rodents to see if visual deprivation—spending extended periods of time in total darkness—can help restore normal vision in adults with lazy eye.

Biology faculty are involved in five of the funded projects.

New grant in virology and renewal of host-pathogen interactions grant adds to programs in comparative and evolutionary biology of hearing, and cell and molecular biology.

Co-principal investigators of the program include Associate Professor Daniel Butts and Professor Bill Fagan.

Biological sciences major Abigail DiVito received the award and will spend the summer as a research assistant in the laboratory of Associate Professor Carlos Machado.

Lips will spend one year at the State Department or USAID for an on-site assignment in Washington, D.C., which could involve extended stays at U.S. foreign embassies and missions.

Professor and Department Chair Bill Fagan received one of the awards to strengthen and formalize the university’s “mathematics in biology” graduate training program.