top of page
News and Announcements


Congratulations to Kenzie Yates for receiving the EXPAND Fellowship!
Kenzie Yates, a 2nd-year graduate student in Dr. Tracy Larson’s lab, was awarded an EXPAND Fellowship for 2025/2026. Kenzie will embark...

Tracy Larson
Jul 191 min read


Another Successful Field Season!
Tracy and members of the Larson Lab  traveled to Eastern Washington state to collect white-crowned sparrows for their research on drivers...

Tracy Larson
Apr 241 min read


2025 Neurobiology in Changing Environments Scientific Symposium
Dr. Tracy Larson joined her colleagues from the Allen Discovery Center and other leading experts in the emerging field of Environmental...

Tracy Larson
Apr 171 min read


Dr. Larson and grads host Annual Biological Sciences Research Symposium
Artist S. Semmelhack from Charlottesville High School through Magnify Undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral trainees had the...

Tracy Larson
Apr 101 min read


Larson receives UVA Research Achievement Award!
The Research Achievement Awards recognize University of Virginia faculty every year for their excellence in research and scholarship. Dr....

Tracy Larson
Feb 11 min read


Release of the Department of Biology Annual Newsletter for 2023
Dr. Tracy Larson worked with Biology Chair Dr. Doug Taylor and Editor Charlie Feingenoff to produce the Annual Newsletter for the Biology...

Tracy Larson
Nov 1, 20241 min read


Larson collaborates to establish the Allen Discovery Center for Neurobiology in Changing Environments
Dr. Tracy Larson and collaborators from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography secured a four-year, $10 million grant from...

Tracy Larson
Sep 15, 20241 min read


Congratulations to Will Tucker for receiving the EXPAND Fellowship!
Will Tucker, a 3rd-year graduate student in Dr. Tracy Larson’s lab, was awarded an EXPAND Fellowship for 2024/2025. Will will embark on a...

Tracy Larson
May 10, 20241 min read


Jack Boyd receives full-tuition scholarship to NYU School of Medicine
Congratulations to Jack Boyd, a former undergraduate trainee in Dr. Tracy Larson’s lab and Neuroscience ’23! Next year Jack will attend...

Tracy Larson
May 8, 20241 min read


Annual Biological Sciences Research Symposium, April 12, 2024
Tracy, Chair of the Community Committee, is partnering with the first-year Biology graduate students to organize the second Annual...

Tracy Larson
Apr 1, 20241 min read


Harrison Awards for Full-Time Summer Research 2024
Paige Chambers and Anya Majji each received the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award to support their independent research projects for...

Tracy Larson
Mar 12, 20241 min read


Larson set to serve as the new Biology Faculty Senator
Dr. Tracy Larson will serve as the Biology Representative for the College of Arts & Sciences on the UVA Faculty Senate for a four-year...

Tracy Larson
Mar 9, 20241 min read


Hosting Dr. Elena Blanco-Suarez for Seminar
On October 20, 2023, Tracy will host Dr. Elena Blanco-Suarez, Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Neuroscience, for her seminar...

Tracy Larson
Feb 23, 20241 min read


Dr. Tracy Larson recognized at the 2023 UVA Research Achievement Awards
Pictured: FRED EPSTEIN, Interim Vice President for Research, TRACY LARSON , Department of Biology, JIM RYAN, President, and IAN BAUCOM,...

Tracy Larson
Feb 8, 20241 min read


Larson Lab featured in Nature!
Members of the Larson Lab present their work at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2023 in Washington D.C. Work presented at the...

Tracy Larson
Dec 9, 20231 min read


Hosting Dr. Josh Gross for Seminar
On October 20, 2023, Tracy will host Dr. Josh Gross, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, for a seminar titled,...

Tracy Larson
Oct 3, 20231 min read


Release of the first Biology Department Newsletter
To highlight and celebrate the ‘tangled bank’ of activities that make our department the remarkable community it is, Doug Taylor, Chair...

Tracy Larson
Sep 30, 20231 min read


Tracy receives $2.5mil MIRA R35!
Tracy Larson received a MIRA R35 ESI from the National Institute of General Medicine to study the limits of degeneration and regeneration...

Tracy Larson
Sep 30, 20231 min read


The Biology DEI Committee unveils new homepage
The DEI Committee, under leadership of Dr. Masashi Kawasaki, released a webpage detailing UVA Biology’s values of an inclusive and...

Tracy Larson
Sep 8, 20231 min read


Harrison Awards for Full-Time Summer Research 2023
Alex Perez and Kathryn Chung each received the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award to support their independent research projects for...

Tracy Larson
Mar 28, 20231 min read


Creation of the Biology Outreach and Inclusion Program
The Department of Biology graduate students have formed a club to promote outreach activities in the local and regional communities...

Tracy Larson
Oct 1, 20201 min read


STEM Middle School Visit
We held our first annual STEM Middle School Visit in February 2020, in which more than 130 students from two regional middle schools...

Tracy Larson
Feb 29, 20201 min read
bottom of page