biology
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T. Edwin "Ed" Rogers 1917-2009
Thomas Edwin (“Ed”) Rogers, biology professor emeritus, died Saturday, January 3, 2009, in Iowa City. He was 91.
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Cornell celebrates “Darwin 200”
MOUNT VERNON – In celebration of the double anniversary of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday and 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, Cornell College will host a number of speakers and events commemorating Darwin’s life and work.
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Wilderness Field Station provides base camp for Boundary Waters courses
Since 1961, the Wilderness Field Station in northern Minnesota has provided Cornell students with a spectacular nature-based classroom. Academic departments ranging from biology to English to politics now take advantage of the field station during first block each year as part of the annual Cornell Wilderness Term.
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Zuccarelli works towards career in bilingual medicine
Britton Zuccarelli ’07 earned a full-tuition scholarship to the University of Kansas School of Medicine, and plans to eventually practice bilingual medicine with a specialization in adolescent medicine, family practice or pediatrics. As an undergraduate she majored in biochemistry and molecular biology and Spanish, with a minor in chemistry.
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Jessica Johnson ’07
Jessica Johnson ’07 completed her first year of Medical School at the University of Missouri in 2008. At Cornell, she majored in mathematics, minored in biology, and pursued a wide range of activities including NCAA volleyball, research on rainforest plant/insect relationships, an internship in prosthetics, and a month in Guatemala assisting with joint replacements through […]
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Condon study published in "Science" Magazine
In an article published this week in Science, Cornell College biology professor Marty Condon and coauthors turn current thought on plant-feeding insect diversity on its head. The study used an examination of fruit fly diversity in Latin America to conclude that typical niche diversity tracking can lead to undercounting of species. DNA analysis resulted in […]
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Jeff Welder ’07
Jeff Welder ’07 says his Cornell education prepared him well for the first-year rigors of medical school at the University of Iowa.
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Elizabeth Bach ’07
Elizabeth Bach ’07 earned a prestigious McElroy Fellowship as a Cornell senior, and is now studying prairie soil ecology as a graduate student at Southern Illinois University. At Cornell she majored in biology and environmental studies, with a minor in chemistry.
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Students research reefs and culture in the Bahamas
Each February, Cornell courses in biology, geology, and anthropology leave the cold Iowa winter behind for a month in the Bahamas. The Gerace Research Center on the island of San Salvador provides an excellent facility for ongoing Cornell studies of modern and ancient reef systems in the area.
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Krouse Recieves Spencer Award
MOUNT VERNON — Cornell biology lecturer and lab instructor Laura Krouse will receive the 2007 Spencer Award for Sustainable Agriculture at the annual meeting of Practical Farmers of Iowa Jan. 11-12 in Des Moines.
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Prairie restorationist Pauline Drobney to speak
MOUNT VERNON — One of the nation’s leading prairie and savanna restorationists will speak at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, at Cornell College’s Kimmel Theatre.
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Bowen combines biology and math interests into award-winning genetics research
Danielle Bowen came to Cornell with interests in math and biology and left with a prestigious scholarship and solid grounding in the cutting-edge area of statistical genetics. She says her eyes were first opened to the burgeoning field in Bioinformatics, a computer science course taught by Andy Wildenberg.
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Cornell senior Bach earns coveted McElroy Fellowship
MOUNT VERNON — Elizabeth Bach, a senior biology and environmental studies major at Cornell College, has been awarded the R.J. McElroy Fellowship.
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Borowske awarded Fulbright grant
MOUNT VERNON — Senior Alyssa Borowske has been awarded a Fulbright grant to study the impacts of Australian magpies on native bird species in New Zealand. She will work with researchers at the University of Waikato using radio telemetry to track habitat use of two endemic species, the Tui and the Wood Pigeon, in areas […]
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Indian Creek Nature Center to name prairie after Cornell professor, prairie advocate
MOUNT VERNON — Indian Creek Nature Center will celebrate Earth Day weekend with the dedication of a seven-acre prairie Sunday, April 23, for Paul Christiansen, emeritus professor of biology at Cornell College who devoted his career to studying, managing, preserving and restoring the tall-grass prairie. The dedication is from 1 to 4 p.m. at the […]