News and Events – Department of Biology

Biology CURE Labs Change how Students Explore Research

April 8, 2026
CURE courses, teaching lab

A special group of biology labs, called CURE, are helping students understand research and develop their own experiments. Featured in The Daily, these courses allow students to ask open-ended questions and develop their own methods of testing and gathering data. Rather than completing a checklist of steps and going through guided...

Effects of Simulated Dusk and Dawn on Activity and Feeding of Puerto Rican Crested Toads (Peltophryne lemur) in Captivity, by Brady Parlato and Noah Dunham

March 13, 2026
Brady Parlato, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Noah Dunham

Check out this new article in Zoo Biology by CWRU graduate student Brady Parlato and Cleveland Metroparks Zoo research curator and BioScience Alliance adjunct assistant professor Dr. Noah Dunham on the effects of light at night on the behavior of Puerto Rican crested toads! They found that toads tended...

Biology Graduate Students Awarded GCAS GSSCE Grants

March 5, 2026
Elizabeth Rush, GCAS, GCAS GSSCE, graduate student, GSSCE, Jessica LaBella, Manish Sarkar, student awards

Three graduate students in the biology department were recently awarded GCAS Graduate Student Scholarship and Creative Endeavor Grants for their work in their respective fields Manish Sarkar "Context-dependent coexistence of social parasites: fungus-growing ant communities as a case study" Elizabeth Rush "A Novel Preclinical Mouse Model for Neonatal Marfan Syndrome Exhibits...

Graduate Student Spotlight: Miranda Shetzer

February 25, 2026
graduate student, graduate student spotlight, Miranda Shetzer

Miranda is a 4th year PhD Candidate studying plant ecophysiology in the Medeiros Lab at Holden Arboretum. She graduated with a BS in Biology from John Carroll University in 2022 where her undergraduate work focused on cyanobacteria taxonomy. After completing a summer internship at Holden Arboretum in 2021, Miranda...

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