News and Events – Department of Biology

Mike Sorrell, Senior Research Associate and Member of the Skeletal Research Center, Passes Away

July 19, 2024
faculty, Mike Sorrell

"For 34 years, J. Michael “Mike” Sorrell worked side-by-side with Skeletal Research Center (SRC) founder Arnold Caplan and countless other researchers from across the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine. As senior research associate and the director of the Monoclonal Antibody Facility within the SRC,...

Biology Undergraduates Recognized for Their Research Achievements in the 2024 Undergraduate Awards Luncheon

May 13, 2024

Friday, April 26th 2024 the Biology Department held their annual Undergraduate Awards Luncheon in Hovorka Atrium. Faculty and undergraduate students who were nominated for one of the various awards given by the department were invited to accept their certificates and hear encouraging comments from their mentors and professors over...

Graduate Student Aruni Kadawatha Invited to Give Research Talk!

May 1, 2024
graduate student

Aruni Kadawatha, a PhD student in the Burns lab, has been invited to give a talk at the Invasion Science Research Symposium scheduled for May 6-8, 2024 in Gainsville, FL. Her talk is titled "Effect of Global Warming and Habitat Fragmentation on Seed Germination and Occurrence of Invasive Rosa...

Biology’s Michelson Morley Honors Competition 2024

April 25, 2024
Michelson and Morley, undergraduate award ceremony

On Friday, April 19th, sixteen undergraduate biology majors presented research as part of the annual Michelson Morley Competition in Biological Sciences. The competition honors the collaborative research initiated in 1885 between Albert A. Michelson, a Case physicist, and Edward W. Morley, a Western Reserve Chemist, which culminated in the...

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