Biology

USU Trustee Professor James A. "Jim" MacMahon, an ecologist whose research, teaching and administrative career at Utah State spanned more than 40 years, died May 6, 2024, at age 85. MacMahon was renowned for his scholarship, teaching, mentorship, leadersh...

With National Science Foundation funding, faculty members Lauren Lucas and Zach Gompert create Research, Scholarship and Creative Inquiry-Intensive course that leads fledgling researchers, step-by-step, through the scientific inquiry process.

For more than a decade, Utah State University scholars have pioneered research on the production and structure of synthetic spider silk. Building on lessons learned, researchers in the lab of biology faculty member Justin Jones are branching into organism...

USU alumna and Air Force bionenvironmental engineering officer Isabella Muffoletto was deployed with the “Red Tails” 332d Medical Expeditionary Group to the Middle East (undisclosed location), as part of Operation Inherent Resolve in 2021.