CSU Desert Studies Consortium opens winter session courses for January 2019
The CSU Desert Studies program has announced three field courses in desert conservation, ecology, and geology for this year’s January winter session. The first, a…
View More CSU Desert Studies Consortium opens winter session courses for January 2019Graduate & Professional School Information Day showcases options for education after CSUN
Seventy-five graduate school programs from across California and beyond will woo CSUN students at the 2018 Graduate and Professional School Information Day next Tuesday. The…
View More Graduate & Professional School Information Day showcases options for education after CSUNHelp plant trees with the National Park Service and Mountains Restoration Trust this Saturday
Biology student Richard Rachman is leading a tree-planting event on Saturday to restore habitat along Portero Road in Thousand Oaks. Students, faculty, staff, and friends…
View More Help plant trees with the National Park Service and Mountains Restoration Trust this SaturdayNew geckoes described by CSUN Biology professor and colleagues
In an article published in the open-access journal PeerJ, Professor of Biology Robert Espinoza and colleagues at La Sierra University, the University of Kansas, Universiti Sains Malaysia,…
View More New geckoes described by CSUN Biology professor and colleaguesMackelprang’s beehives now producing honey for sale
CSUN Today reports that honey from beehives maintained on the CSUN campus by Associate Professor of Biology Rachel Mackelprang will soon be available for sale…
View More Mackelprang’s beehives now producing honey for saleColloquium: terHorst on the limits of eco-evolutionary interactions
This week’s seminar in the Biology Department colloquium series will be presented by CSUN Associate Professor of Biology Casey terHorst. terHorst studies the ecological impacts of…
View More Colloquium: terHorst on the limits of eco-evolutionary interactionsInvasive wildflower grows bigger, but not more competitive, in new territory
The invasive wildflower Medicago polymorpha has evolved to grow more rapidly in its new range, but this change is not associated with stronger competitive ability against…
View More Invasive wildflower grows bigger, but not more competitive, in new territoryRichard Duenckel Garden Club Scholarship offers $1500 for students on #TeamAutotroph
The Richard Duenckel Garden Club Scholarship from the Toluca Lake Garden Club provides up to $1,500 for undergraduate and graduate students studying the biology of plants,…
View More Richard Duenckel Garden Club Scholarship offers $1500 for students on #TeamAutotrophDiscover the microbes behind your Merlot at Wine 101
The Microbiology Student Association (MSA) would like to welcome you to our first event of the Fall 2018 semester. This Friday, September 21st we will…
View More Discover the microbes behind your Merlot at Wine 101This invasive plant succeeds by evolving to compete
Experiments with the invasive wildflower Medicago polymorpha show that the plant evolved to be a tougher competitor as it established itself in new habitats, including California.…
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