News and Events – Page 2 – Department of Biology

Seminar Series to Resume for Spring 2025 on January 16th

January 8, 2025
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Join the department at the first Spring 2024 Biology Seminar on Thursday, January 16th at 4pm in DeGrace hall, Rm 312! This seminar will feature 3 talks from Postdoctoral Scholars in the department: Amy Streets - "Antennal stimulation affects haltere motion in Drosophila" Kasey Pham - "Tracing the Footprints of Hybridization Across the Genome...

Seminar Speaker Jordanna Sprayberry offers Teaching Workshop for Grad Students

November 6, 2024
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Graduate Students! Join us in Clapp 304 Thursday, November 14th at noon for pizza and a teaching workshop! This will be held by seminar speaker Dr. Jordanna Sprayberry, who will also be giving a seminar at 4pm on Thursday in the Dental Research Building. We're looking forward to seeing you...

Join the Department! Biology Department Hiring Teaching Laboratory Coordinator

November 6, 2024
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The Biology Department is seeking applicants for a newly created staff position, the Teaching Laboratory Support Coordinator. The primary responsibility of the Teaching Laboratory Support Coordinator will be to ensure the smooth running of the Biology Department’s new teaching laboratories. The new teaching laboratories include six wet lab classrooms,...

Ron Oldfield Talks About the Value of Persistence in new Daily Article

October 23, 2024
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Biology Instructor Ron Oldfield discusses how his persistent pursuit of aquarium fish welfare led him down a path of 20 years of research and a paper published in Animal Science titled “Psychological and Social Wellbeing of Bony Fishes in Zoos and Aquariums”. “They looked at me like I was speaking another language,” Oldfield said....

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