biology
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4 faculty complete 142 years of teaching
Cornell College is saying goodbye to four faculty, including the last professor who had taught here on the semester system.
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In brief: Summer 2019
Photos of baby sea turtles, students in Adirondack chairs, and a dance concert; senior capstone topics; and Brendan Langmack ’20.
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Jeffrey Cardon emeritus citation, 2019
Emeritus citation for Jeffrey Cardon, professor of biology and chemistry from 1982-2019.
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Build up your experiences
Mari Dettweiler ʼ19 is an environmental studies major with a focus in conservation biology and stats and a double minor in biology and English. She fell in love with the Hilltop on her first visit to Cornell College.
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4 elected, 1 reelected to Cornell’s Board of Trustees
The Cornell Board of Trustees has elected four members—Stuart Gunn, Jessica Meis ’19, Scott Ririe ’79, and Kevin Weiss ’76—and reelected Thomas Durham ’77.
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4 faculty complete 142 years of teaching
Cornell is saying goodbye to four faculty, including the last professor who taught here on the semester The four have a total of 142 years of teaching.
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Built for the block: Russell Science Center
Cornell College’s first academic building designed for the block plan is changing the way sciences are taught on campus.
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Alumni at a Glance: Brett Janis ’14
Brett Janis ’14 has a superpower—research skills that may just alter biological medicine as we know it. Imagine if human blood did not need to be refrigerated and could be provided anywhere there is a need—the front lines of the battlefield, clinics in the least-developed countries, or long-distance spaceflights.
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Fellows prepare for trips to South Africa, Ethiopia
Cornell Fellows are gearing up for trips across the globe during Blocks 6 and 7.
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Costa Rica course explores biological problems
Students studied under the Costa Rican sun and rain for their Block 3 course, Biological Problems.
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Classes begin in Russell Science Center
The Cornell College community experienced something on Nov. 26, 2018, that hasn’t happened in more than 40 years on campus. The college opened its first new academic building.
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Researchers study dopamine’s relation to Parkinson’s disease
Nina Kahn ’18 and Professor Barbara Christie-Pope examine cells that degenerate in the midbrain resulting in Parkinson’s disease.
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Halloween superstitions and flying foxes
It’s Halloween time again, and around much of the world people are decorating with images of ghosts, vampires, witches, black cats, and, of course, bats.
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Alumnus research published in Nature
The journal Nature recently published research by Casey Godwin ’03.
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CSRI student searches for new trends in research data
A CSRI research team is working on long-running research that focuses on the evolutionary biology of unique flies.
4 faculty complete
142 years of teaching 
In brief: Summer 2019 
Jeffrey Cardon emeritus citation, 2019 
Build up your experiences 
4 elected, 1 reelected to Cornell’s Board of Trustees 
4 faculty complete 142 years of teaching 
Built for the block: Russell Science Center 
Alumni at a Glance: Brett Janis ’14 
Fellows prepare for trips to South Africa, Ethiopia 
Costa Rica course explores biological problems 
Classes begin in Russell Science Center 
Researchers study dopamine’s relation to Parkinson’s disease 
Halloween superstitions and flying foxes 
Alumnus research published in Nature 
CSRI student searches for new trends in research data