Last year many of you will remember Sir David Attenborough abseiled down the live wall in the building named after him. Yesterday the abseilers were back to put the sign at the top of the building and it certainly got everyone talking. This is a building that for years has been called locally the "Arup Building", after the...

On Saturday 23rd September we welcomed back many former students and other friends of the department to take part in a whole range of activities. These included tours of current research laboratories; an Artists in Zoology trail; a display of some of the Balfour Library’s rare books; a talk from the producer of BBC Planet...

We are pleased to announce that the Zoology Department will be running a Tropical Field Course for Part II students from summer 2018. There are four major reasons why we believe this will be an exciting educational opportunity: 1. Interaction with researchers . The localities chosen will expose students to research-active...

Student Summer Projects Over the summer vacation the department welcomes several students who have applied to do a project in one of our many research groups. The projects can last for a month to ten weeks and this year have ranged from the study of microtubules to the food on your plate. As several of the students have...