News

Welcome to new Bio Sci faculty member, Claire de la Cova!

Bio Sci undergrad travels to Haiti for charity trip

UWM Bio Sci student, Emily Ruder, traveled with a group of other students to Haiti in August to help supply clean water, shoes, food and medicine. Read the full story here.

Loretha Jack awarded UW Sea Grant Scholarship

Congratulations to Loretha Jack, who was recently awarded a Carl J. Weston Memorial Scholarship from the University of Wisconsin’s Sea Grant Institute! These prestigious scholarships provides support to undergraduate students working in the aquatic sciences to advance Great Lakes science… Read More

Julia Robson named “Graduate of the Last Decade”

Congratulations to 2012 Bio Sci/CES alum, Julia Robson! Julia was recently recognized by the UWM Alumni Association as a “Graduate of the Last Decade (Undergraduate)”. Julia works as a Conservation Biologist for Waukesha County Parks & Land Use. Congratulations Julia!

Maria Replogle Awarded Women in Science & Technology Fellowship

Maria Replogle, has been selected to receive the competitive UWM Jeannette Seloover Johnson ’62 and R. Douglas Johnson Women in Science & Technology Fellowship. This fellowship award supports graduate students from the Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering and Computer Sciences. Congratulations to Maria… Read More

Genelle Uhrig Awarded 2018-19 UWM Levine Science Fellowship Award

The Graduate School has announced that Biological Science graduate student, Genelle Uhrig, was chosen to receive one of the two 2018-19 UWM Levine Science Fellowship awards. Congratulations to Genelle on this great achievement! More information about this award is available here.

Tyler Buddell’s Three Minute Thesis Finalist Presentation

Biological Science graduate student, Tyler Buddell, was a finalist in UWM’s inaugural 3MT competition and did a fantastic job representing the department! A video if his presentation is available here. To see more 3 Minute Thesis finalist presentations, visit the… Read More

Bio Sci Graduate Student Presents at ASBMB Annual Conference

Biological Sciences PhD student, Chandrima Ghosh, attends and presents at the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) in San Diego, CA. Great work Chandrima!    

First Falcon Hatch of 2018

Yesterday (05/03/2018) something pretty exciting happened: our first peregrine falcon chick hatched! Click HERE to watch the time-lapse video. More information about the UWM falcons is available HERE.

Biological Sciences Graduate Students Awarded Animal Behavior Society Grants

Congratulations to Clinton Sergi and Olivia Feagles who were each recently awarded research grants from the Animal Behavior Society for their projects. Clint’s project is entitled ‘Analyzing the causes of individual variation in web architecture in Latrodectus hesperus’ and Olivia’s project is… Read More