Shaping the Future of Science
Education. Discovery. Innovation.
$
25,096,431
AWARD DOLLARS RECEIVED IN FY 2024
2,192
Students
86.5
%
1st Year Retention Rate of Fall 2023 Student Cohort
What’s Happening
In the News
NASA is quickly moving forward with plans to establish and build a Space Academy for the U.S. Space Force, similar to the existing military academies for the Air Force, Army and Navy.
Jason Steffen
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
PetHelpful
Don’t brush it off as just another bird. From scientific reasons to ancient spiritual symbolism, here is what that repeated visitor is really trying to tell you.
Donald K. Price
Professor of Biology
Live Science
While Earth's atmosphere protects us from harmful cosmic rays, other cosmic particles are passing through us every second.
Michael Pravica
Professor, Physics
Accomplishments
Robert Pelletier (PhD Biological Sciences, Spring 2026), Michael D. Treat, Frank van Breukelen, and Jef Jaeger (all School of Life Sciences) recently published a paper in the Journal of Experimental Zoology, titled "Higher Energy Demands and Lower Body Condition in a Hot Spring: Comparing Relict…
Doctoral student Natasha Sushenko (Life Sciences) won the International Society for Extremophiles Poster Award 2026 for her poster presentation titled "Folate auxotrophy in Atribacterota reveals a widespread and underappreciated microbial cultivation problem" at the 15th International…
Experts
Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
An internationally recognized expert in astrophysics.
Professor Emeritus of Geology
An expert in geology, paleoecology, paleontology, and the history of geology.
Professor, Life Sciences
Brian Hedlund in an expert in microbial ecology at high temperatures, biofuels and genomics.