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Southern California sun returned this week, and CSUN biologists have been out enjoying it, on field trips and in campus green spaces. Most courses have had the first exam of the semester, and the 2026 Tropical Semester cohort has departed — and Spring Break is just a couple of weeks away.
Applications for student awards and scholarships presented by the Biology Department and the College of Science and Mathematics are nearly due — the deadline for most CSM opportunities is Saturday, Feb 28, and for Biology, Thursday March 5.
The annual CSUN Giving Day fundraising drive returns next Wednesday, March 4. Students, faculty, staff, and alumni can contribute, and rally contributions, for projects and initiatives across campus, including the Department of Biology itself and the CSUN Botanic Garden.
The Office of Strategic Communications is still seeking students to profile for the 2026 commencement celebrations — Faculty should reach out to Carmen Chandler, carmen.chandler@csun.edu, to nominate students.
The scheduled speaker for this week’s Biology Colloquium seminar has had to cancel, so Friday’s seminar will be presented by Prof Jeremy Yoder. Yoder’s lab studies the evolution of interacting species, especially mutualists like plants and their pollinators, and his talk will be titled, “How Joshua trees and yucca moths are evolving, together”. Colloquium seminars are held this semester at 2:30pm in Chaparral Hall room 5125.