News and Events – Page 39 – Department of Biology

Hilary Rollins awarded Frederick H. Stoye Award in Ecology and Ethology

April 24, 2023

CWRU Biology Department doctoral student Hilary Rollins was awarded the Frederick H. Stoye Award in Ecology and Ethology at the 2016 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists for her presentation "How do climate-change induced phenological shifts alter terrestrial competition between two amphibians?" Hilary described the results of research that she...

Like humans, lowly cockroach uses a GPS to get around, scientists find

July 11, 2016

Lead author, PhD student Adrienn G. Varga, and her P.I., Dr. Roy Ritzmann, have been published in Current Biology. Read more about by clicking here!

CWRU and Cleveland Museum of Natural History Researchers featured across several news outlets

June 2, 2016

Biology PhD candidate Sydney Brannoch and her research advisor, Dr. Gavin Svenson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, have been featured across several news outlets for the paper that Brannoch recently published in which she identifies a new species of praying mantis: Ilomantis ginsburgae. The new praying mantis honors Ruth...

Microbiology students attend local High School as part of nation-wide collaboration

April 28, 2016

Students from Dr. Dianne Kube's Microbiology class visited sophomore students and their teacher, Catherine Herman, at Ginn Academy in Cleveland. They were taking part in a nation-wide collaboration with Yale University - Prevalence of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in the Environment (PARE). The Ginn Academy students collected soil and our undergraduate...

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