Armin Moczek, professor and chair of the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, has been selected as the 2026-2027 Alfred M. Boyce Lecturer in Entomology by the Department of Entomology at the University of California, Riverside.
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Owen Black ’28, a biology major at Indiana University Bloomington, was awarded the coveted Goldwater scholarship, given to students who plan to pursue research careers in science, math or engineering.
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On Saturday morning, May 9, the Indiana University Bloomington Biology Department will host two events for the Class of 2026 undergraduate graduation recognition.
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Congratulations to Pranav Danthi, Greg Demas, Laura Mojonnier, Tuli Mukhopadhyay and Karen Whitworth, who have each been awarded for their instructional skills and dedication to their students.
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Biology Professors Rich Hardy and Rich Phillips have been named 2025 AAAS Fellows. The American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals, has named seven Indiana University faculty members to its 2025 fellows’ class, a lifetime honor within the scientific community.
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Indiana University biologist Maria P. Fernandez has been awarded a five-year Maximizing Investigators Research Award (MIRA) grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study how circadian clock neuron networks develop and form functional connections.
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The study, co-authored by Michael Wade, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, addresses a stubborn misconception that has lingered in the field, namely, that natural selection acts almost exclusively on individual organisms competing for survival and reproduction.
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Indiana University has named six faculty members – including Biology Professor Jay Lennon – as Distinguished Professors, the most prestigious appointment offered to honor faculty whose outstanding scholarship, artistic or literary distinction, or other achievements have won significant recognition by peers.
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A new study led by Orie Shafer, Indiana University biology professor and a Linda and Jack Gill Chair at the Gill Institute for Neuroscience, with IU postdoctoral fellow Abhilash Lakshman, Ph.D., and IU undergraduate student Reed Evans, is reshaping how scientists study sleep by revealing that fruit flies experience multiple distinct sleep states rather than a unitary state.
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