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Our nation is reckoning with unprecedented threats to the future of discovery, advancement, and innovation. But we are not without hope.
Though the scientific and research landscape has weathered significant upheavals lately, scientists persevere. Necessity is the mother of invention, after all, and with changing circumstances comes the need to innovate in new and different ways. And that’s just what researchers in the college have been doing.
In these uncertain times when so much of our focus is on reacting to unexpected change, one need only look at the trajectory of scientific and technological advancement to remember that we keep moving forward. In our labs and classrooms, in our college and across our campus, we move forward – and we’re just one of many such campuses across the state and our nation.
Advances will continue. New discoveries will be made. Students will learn and grow and become the changemakers of tomorrow. It’s why we’re here, it’s what we do, and it’s what we will keep doing.
The scientific community is just that: a community. Whether collaborating on an interdisciplinary research project or simply knocking on a colleague’s door to check in, we really are here for one another.
And there’s some comfort in that.
Go Ags.
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Mark Winey, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Biological Sciences
Distinguished Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Featured image above: By studying poison dart frogs (Ranitomeya imitator), Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior researchers are uncovering how biology drives similarities, differences, and surprising reversals in parental roles.
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