Department of Biology

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.

Talk of deep cuts in federal funding for basic and applied research this past spring had many in the scientific community alarmed.