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​Welcome to the DEPARTMENT OF

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

​UND​ERGRADUATEGRADUATE​


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NEW​S


Influencing career trajectories

UD students see surgeries for first time in Winter Session study abroad in Spain
 

Biological Sciences holds first Research Day

130 faculty, graduate and undergraduate students attending the first Research Day.
 

Neunuebel, Perilla named Mangone Young Scholars

Josh Neunuebel, a neuroscientist, and Juan Perilla, a biophysical chemist, have been named 2022 Mangone Young Scholars.
 
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100%
of students with a Bachelor's of Science in Biology are employed or pursuing further education
900+
Undergraduates majoring in Biological Sciences
100%
of students with a M.S. or Ph.D. in Biological Sciences are employed in industry or academia
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Wh​y UD Biology? 



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FACULTY SPOTLIGHT

Lisha Shao

Lisha Shao, Assistant Professor of Biology, leads a group investigating the genetic and neural mechanisms of reward. She has received a $1.98 million R35 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the mechanisms that underpin sexu​al reward in the brain of female Drosophila, which will advance our understanding of the rewarding aspect of matin​g behavior and provide novel insights into fundamental principles for the encoding and regulation of natural reward.​


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