Each year at the University of California Santa Cruz, about 5,000 undergraduate students participate in field courses that take them outside the classroom and into the natural world. Field courses and research opportunities build skills and create communities.

Thought LeadersJames J. CollinsTermeer Professor of Medical Engineering and ScienceMassachusetts Institute of Technology In this interview, Professor James J. Collins, co-founder of the field of Synthetic Biology, discusses his journey to founding the ...

Of the many intriguing science classes at Cornell, Introductory Field Biology offers a unique experience for students to immerse themselves in ecology both in and out of the classroom. Natural Resources 2100 is an outdoor field course exclusively for ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical debates remain.

The joint funding program of the French National Research Agency (ANR) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) promotes Franco-German cooperation in the natural sciences, the life sciences, and the engineering sciences. Through this program, Johannes ...

The study of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and their influence on plant biology constitutes a rapidly evolving field that bridges environmental physics and plant science. EMFs, predominantly arising from both natural and anthropogenic sources, have been ...

The Wittig Feminist Biology Initiative is a program through the University of Wisconsin Department of Gender and Women’s Studies funded by an estate gift from the late biologist Gertraude Wittig. According to the Center for Research on Gender and Women ...