College of Arts and Sciences

Sakin Kirti is a first-year undergraduate student at CWRU. Beckman Scholar program exists at 12 institutions in America and is designed to support outstanding undergraduate research students. He has past research experiences in high school in the Heller Lab at Stanford in inner year development. He presented that research at...

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Kacey Cope published a paper, "Exposure to artificial light at night during the larval stage has delayed effects on juvenile corticosterone concentration in American toads, Anaxyrus americanus" in the journal General and Comparative Endocrinology (link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2020.113508) in May 2020.  This work was completed while Dr. Cope was a PhD candidate...

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(For Photos and bios please click here). 2020 Department of Biology Undergraduate Awards   Daniel Burke Prize (for excellence in both biology and chemistry)……………………………….………..Cindy Ho Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Award (for outstanding academic performance in biology)………………………………….Alexa Smith Francis Hobart Herrick Prize (for outstanding biological research and academic excellence in biology) ……..Timothy Nehila J. Paul Visscher Memorial Award of...

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There are treatments, but no cures, for millions of people worldwide suffering from diseases such as multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and leukodystrophies (rare genetic diseases that affect the brain and spinal cord). This is why Paul Tesar and his lab continue to conduct promising translational research using stem cells...

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