News and Events – Page 12 – Department of Biology

The Department Welcomes 5 New Faculty!

August 28, 2023

Faculty, staff, and graduate students were welcomed back to campus with a pasta buffet and some opening notes from Dr. Ryan Martin and Department Chair Dr. Michael Benard at our Graduate Welcome Luncheon this past Thursday, August 24th. The Department of Biology welcomed 5 new faculty members, including 2...

Dr. Emmitt Jolly Quoted in Newsweek Article on Schistosomiasis

August 1, 2023

Professor Dr. Emmitt Jolly was recently quoted in the Newsweek article "Horror as Woman Shares Symptoms That Discovered Mom's 40-Year-Old Parasite." The article discusses the incredible case of a woman who lived with Schistosomiasis for 36 years! Dr. Jolly spoke on the prevalence of these parasites in different parts of the world,...

Incoming Biology Department Assistant Professor Dr. Elliot Gardner Publishes About the Evolution of Tropical Trees in PNAS

July 6, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Elliot Gardner, an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology, who recently published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences about the evolution of tropical trees "Echoes of ancient introgression punctuate stable genomic lineages in the evolution of figs". From the...

Biology Student Reda Riffi Awarded the 2023 Peter Witt Scholarship

June 20, 2023

Reda Riffi, an undergraduate Neurosciences and Chemistry student and Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Xiong Lab at the CWRU School of Medicine, was awarded the 2023 Peter Witt Scholarship for his achievements in childcare support in South Africa. He has also been elected Treasurer of Nourish Educare and Pre-Primary...

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