Dec 20, 2013
Mark Ross ’14 and Brad Bormann ’14 Earn Academic All-America Honors
Mark Ross ’14 (Aliquippa, Pa.) and Brad Bormann ’14 (Flemington, N.J.) have been named to the Capital One Academic All-America Division I Football…
Biology
Our biology majors enjoy small classes and laboratory sections, even in General Biology. Our professors are committed to teaching and undergraduate research, and about half of our majors perform individual lab research projects under the guidance of faculty mentors. Many of these result in published scientific papers with students as co-authors and/or public presentations at state and national scientific meetings.
Dec 17, 2013
Dr. David Perlmutter ’76 Discusses Findings of Best-Selling Book on PBS
Released in September, Grain Brain by neurologist Dr. David Perlmutter ’76 was listed in the top ten on The New York Times nonfiction hardcover best-sellers…
Dec 5, 2013
Biology Prof. Mike Butler Introduces Students to the Tools of Science
The average person doesn’t care much for bird droppings, but biology major Melissa Homsher ’14 finds them pretty interesting. Under the guidance of…
Dec 5, 2013
Biology Infusion Initiative Provides Interdisciplinary Solutions
Students in Megan Rothenberger’s Environmental Issues in Aquatic Ecosystems class are tackling problems using expertise and resources from biology and…
Oct 21, 2013
Balancing Work and Life in the Medical Field
By Bill Kline More than a passion play. It’s hard work. It’s grabbing opportunities. It’s discovering that there is more than one path to becoming…
Oct 9, 2013
Student-Faculty Team Publishes Discovery about Eye Movement in Turtles
James Dearworth, associate professor of biology, has a long history with turtles. He studied the functional anatomy of the turtle retina as a grad student…
Sep 20, 2013
Cancer Research is Personal for Kyle Tucker ’14
For Kyle Tucker ’14 (Los Angeles, Calif.), cancer research allows him to explore multiple fields of science, but it also touches him on a personal level…
Sep 20, 2013
All the World is a Lab (and a Stage) for Ecologist Nancy Waters
Nancy Waters shares three things with all of her students. One, energy flows and nutrients cycle. (“Energy is always one direction, but it moves by virtue…
Aug 29, 2013
First Class of Students Earns Health and Life Sciences Minor
“It may sound cliché, but I believe the health and life sciences minor chose me and not the other way around,” says Alec Eidelman ’13 (B.S. biochemistry)…
Jul 25, 2013
Jared Mintz ’11 Receives Victory Scholarship to Study and Play Basketball in Ireland
Jared Mintz ’11 will study and play basketball at the University of Ulster in Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, during the 2013-14 academic year through…