Category: Biocore Curriculum

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Magical Monarchs at the Biocore Prairie

Seth McGee led a community science outreach even on Sunday 9/13/2026, inviting students from across campus to net, catch, tag, and release monarchs. A select few monarchs that qualified were also fitted with a solar powered radio tag, enabling more data collection on monarch migration than the standard paper tags alone. Check out the photo …

Department of Biology Undergrads among 2026 Goldwater Scholars

Three University of Wisconsin–Madison juniors have received 2026 Goldwater Scholarships, the premier undergraduate scholarship in mathematics, engineering and the natural sciences in the United States. The students are juniors Aletta Bergman, Krithi Gopinath and Eva Stafne. Both Bergman and Gopinath are students in the Department of Biology. Read the full article.

McGee and Walston win 2026 Award for Mentoring Undergraduates

Professor Seth McGee and graduate student Joseph Walston have each been recognized for their outstanding mentorship of undergraduate students.