Biology

Extra Credit
A hand holding an old photo of a student sitting on the stairs outside of the UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center.
Glimpse

Visiting—and revisiting—the photographs of Arthur Mange

Fall 2024
An Illustration of four types of snails in an old textbook style

Honoring researchers, activists, innovators, and more

Hidden Gems
A closeup photo of dead beetles pinned to a board.
Hidden Gems

An epic insect collection serves generations of students

Extra Credit
A flock of birds in flight, silhouetted against a pink and blue sky

Citizen science, machine learning predict bird migration

Fall 2023
Seven amphibian species in a circle around a grayed-out microscopic image of a fungal cell.
Wow

Researchers at UMass are racing to stop widespread amphibian extinction

Fall 2023
Person in a white beekeeper suit stands in a field of sunflowers

How sunflowers are saving the bees

Spring 2023
A black and white photo of a smiling person with short dark hair.

Claiming a mark of achievement and pride

Fall 2022
A graphic of an orange hand making the letter “r” in American Sign Language.

Meeting the Deaf community ‘on its own terms’

Extra Credit
Artistic recreation of the dinosaur Podokesaurus holyokensis
Glimpse

Professor Emerita Margery Coombs on the new state dinosaur

Fall 2021
Illustration of hand, palm side up as for palmistry, with various sites magnified and showing brightly colored faux microbes and bacteria

Working to understand—and protect—the hand microbiome

Fall 2017
Ice Diver
Web Exclusive

Professor Emeritus Robert Wilce on going the distance for arctic seaweed.

Fall 2017
Bring on the Beastcam
Web Extra

UMass scientists create a digital Noah’s ark.