TTU - Biological Sciences

09/15/2025

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Drs. Dylan Schwilk and Nathan Gill from Texas Tech, together with Dr. Katharine Suding from the University of Colorado Boulder and Dr. Jon Henn from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, received a research award from the National Science Foundation to establish a network to help reduce grassland wildfire risk.
In collaboration with land managers, land owners, fire professionals and decision makers, the team will use prescribed fire and new data collection to develop and test methods for predicting fuels and fire risk across different climates, plant communities, and cultural fire contexts.

08/19/2025

Check out some of the work done by Dr. Juliette Rubin. Dr. Rubin is one of our incoming research professors. 🦋

Warm temperatures, not just predator pressure, may favor luna moths’ long bat-fooling streamers, a geographic analysis of iNaturalist pics shows.

08/08/2025

Check out some of our faculty and student's research at Guadalupe Mountains National Park. 🌿🥾

Texas Tech researchers traveled to the Guadalupe Mountains National Park to collect plant specimens and continue work in the same place as another Tech profe...

05/16/2025

Who’s ready for graduation weekend? The Biology faculty are ready! Congratulations to all of our graduates! ❤️🖤🎓

05/06/2025

Congratulations to Abdulkader Almosa, Ghufran Murtuza, and Charlie Zhang for being selected one of TTU's Tech10 for their commitment to academic excellence, commitment to leadership on the TTU campus, commitment to service, and a commitment to Striving for Honor.

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05/06/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Morri Hartgraves for being awarded the TTU Professing Excellence Award! 👏

04/10/2025

Dr. Jenn Burns is part of a research team looking into the physiology of seals. 🦭

The pups head out on their own after only 15 to 20 days of nursing.

04/10/2025

Congrats to TTU Biology Alumni on their feature in Science magazine looking at bat biodiversity in Nigeria! 🦇🇳🇬

Benneth Obitte and Inoro Tanshi’s efforts have documented a major hot spot of African bat diversity

04/04/2025

We’re moving to RaiderCanvas! 💻🧬🦠🌿

RaiderCanvas live shells are ready for Summer!!

This migration timeline lays out the steps for our exciting transition to RaiderCanvas this fall.

04/01/2025

TTU Biology Faculty stepped out for a night at the TEDx Texas Tech 2025 "What is...?" event.
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/59781

04/01/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Matt Johnson for his Excellence in Teaching Innovation Award and Dr. Corey Brelsfoard for his Excellence in Research Award at the TTU College of Arts and Sciences, Texas Tech University Faculty and Staff Awards Banquet.

03/25/2025

Texas Tech Day of Giving March 25-26, 2025

Your contribution can make a significant impact on the education and research opportunities we provide to our students. Read more about donating to Biological Sciences at:

https://www.depts.ttu.edu/biology/Alumni/donation.php