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Biology's Regeneration Group: Ann Morris

Regeneration is one of the most tantalizing areas of biological research. How are some animals able to regrow body parts following injury? Why can't humans do the same thing? Can scientists learn the secrets that imbue certain animals with this amazing ability? Could that knowledge someday be…

Biology's Regeneration Group: Ashley Seifert

Biology's Regeneration Group: Randal Voss

Behavioral Ecologist David Westneat at UK's Ecological Research Facility

Local ecology, stress, hormones and other factors may influence how animals care for their young, and David Westneat is working with a local population of house sparrows to understand how all these variables come together to affect the parenting "personalities" of birds and other creatures.…

Fast Track 2013

FastTrack for Calculus and FastTrack for Bio-Calc are residential academic program designed to prepare students for rigorous undergraduate mathematics and biology classes before the start of the fall semester. Through FastTrack, students get acclimated to college-level coursework, and have the…

Summer Internship Award Winners in Biology

Taylor Shackleford and Sarah Whelan are the first awardees of the Ribble Undergraduate Summer Research Internship, a new program for outstanding biology majors supported by the Gertrude F. Ribble Fund. Photography by: Dana Rogers

Meet Paul Hime

Paul Hime was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. This prestigious and highly-competitive award will provide Hime with three years of financial support while he completes his doctoral degree at the University of Kentucky. Read his story here:…

Bruce O'Hara Biology

Photographs By: Dana Rogers Professor Bruce O’Hara in the Department of Biology is interested in the overall quality of your sleep. In his research laboratory in the Thomas Hunt Morgan Building, O’Hara investigates sleep patterns and circadian rhythms within the brain. To read more visit...…

Biology Summer BBQ

Dana Rogers Photography

June 28, 2013 Thomas Hunt Morgan Building

The Biology Department will be having BBQ's on the following upcoming Fridays: July 12, July 26, August 16.

A&S Wired Students Present Projects on Henrietta Lacks

Fifteen A&S Wired students gathered at Keeneland Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 29, to showcase their knowledge of human subject protection, cell biology, research ethics and history. With posters, movies on iPads, handouts and PowerPoints, they presented information on this wide array of topics —…

Ecological Research Facility

The University of Kentucky's Ecological Research Facility (ERF) is a roughly 55-acre tract of old farmland on the north side of Lexington Kentucky. Consisting of old fields and artificial ponds, ERF is located in a residential neighborhood between downtown Lexington and the surrounding horse farms…

Biology Professor Ann Morris' Lab and Students

Biology Professor Ann Morris has been chosen as one of 22 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences for her innovative and groundbreaking retinal research with zebrafish. Learn more about Morris' research in an exclusive A&S podcast interview:…

Faculty Spotlight: Ann Morris

Biology Professor Ann Morris has been chosen as one of 22 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences for her innovative and groundbreaking retinal research with zebrafish. In addition to the Pew Foundation award, Morris has also been awarded funds for her groundbreaking research in visual function…

Knights Templar visit Department of Biology

Professor of Biology Ann Morris was presented a check on Monday by the Knights Templar Foundation for her cutting-edge research on zebrafish and retinal regeneration. The grant was presented in a ceremony also attended by Dean Mark Kornbluh and Department of Biology Chair Vinnie Cassone.