UCI has been awarded a record $529 million in research funding for fiscal year 2019-2020. In recent years, across campus, schools have made remarkable progress towards the centralization of their Research Development and Pre-Awards operations. Dunlop School began the...
New Grant Aims to Boost STEM Teacher Education
An interdisciplinary team of UCI faculty and staff led by School of Biological Sciences Associate Teaching Professor Jessica Pratt was recently awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support STEM teacher preparation through...
Plastics, Pathogens and Baby formula: What’s in Your Shellfish? New UCI-led Study Finds Coastal Urbanization Increases Contamination in Seafood
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Assistant Professor Joleah Lamb and postdoctoral scholar Raechel Littman are collaborating with with other scientists and organizations to comprehensively examine contaminants in oysters in Myanmar. The findings are alarming, showing...
Faculty Retirements 2020
Please join the School of Biological Sciences in sending our best wishes to Professors John Avise, Michael Cumsky, David Gardiner and Donald Senear on their retirement from UCI. Each one of them has dedicated countless hours to help propel Dunlop School to its current...
Dunlop School Professor Adriana Briscoe featured on NPR Podcast
Dunlop School Professor Adriana Briscoe, department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, shares some interesting facts about butterflies on NPR! She also discusses the importance of teachers and mentors in diversifying the STEM fields, which Professor Briscoe has...
Staff Retirements
Please join the School of Biological Sciences in wishing a fond farewell to our wonderful staff members Yuanshun Chen, Minh-Thanh Dinh and Larry Herman as they head off to their next great adventure -- their retirement from the University. Dunlop School has benefited...
Professor Kathleen K. Treseder appointed first Howard A. Schneiderman Endowed Chair
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professor Kathleen K. Treseder has been appointed the first Howard A. Schneiderman Endowed Chair in the School of Biological Sciences, effective July 1, 2020. The Howard A. Schneiderman Endowed Chair was established in 2020 to honor...
Eashan Reddy Kotha
Class of 2020, Neurobiology Why did you choose to major in biology? I chose to major in Biology because I’ve always been drawn to understanding how the natural world works. It was a field I wanted to dig deeper into and specifically, I wanted to learn more about the...
Lizzy is a WordPress Wonder!
Lizzy has done an amazing job learning WordPress in a short amount of time. She's been extremely helpful and responsive to faculty and also very proactive in taking on new web tasks. Thank you, Lizzy!
Thank you to our outstanding Pre-Awards team!
Dunlop School's pre-awards team stays upbeat and remains calm when under pressure to meet timelines. Thank you Jason Park, Megan Vu, Carmen Bastos, and Erica Turley-Devilla for all that you do! I really enjoy working with all of you.