Department of Biology

A group of cadets from The Citadel have entered a diving pelican sculpture in the Port Royal Sound Foundation Recycled Art Contest, to be judged against other schools and groups for a potential $2,000 in prizes.

I became someone here−this was the place where I found the courage to stand up for myself against the injustices done to me in the past.

This week we tackle the War on Straws and how worried we should be about all the plastic filling our oceans.

A living cell has thousands of internal parts. The movement of those parts is at the center of a research effort led by a Citadel biology professor.

As disciplines, economics and ecology are largely thought of as distinct and separate from one another, often taught on opposite ends of campus.

Groundbreaking research shows that seven tons of microscopic plastic particles can be found floating in Charleston Harbor.

When you’re driving, every time you brake, speed up, or hug an S-curve, you leave tiny flecks of tire behind.

Two disturbing findings made by researchers at The Citadel come as state legislators are dealing with a bill regarding the banning of plastic bags.

Can penguins and people get along? That’s one of the questions Citadel professor Dr. Paul Nolan is trying to answer.

While Citadel cadets and students are away enjoying fall furlough and Thanksgiving traditions around the U.S., some of their specimens left behind in the classroom lab have completed a complicated biological phenomenon: regenerating their body parts.