Posted in Biology News, Uncategorized on Oct 30th, 2008
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Students in our BIO 355 Advanced Techniques in Molecular Biology conduct research projects for the entire semester. Here, Ebony is working on a project studying gene expression in tomatoes using the Green Fluorescent Protein. Check out flickr.com for more pictures and information on some of the other projects [...]
Posted in Biology News, Uncategorized on Oct 30th, 2008
BIO 113 students
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Students in one of our BIO 113 General Biology I classes are investigating competition between bacterial species as part of their independent project this semester.
Posted in Biology Student Research on Oct 22nd, 2008
More of our senior capstone students gave presentations on their capstone projects last week -
Tara K. spoke about her work compiling, organizing and analyzing data from the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Survey of the Nation’s Lakes. The data will be used to generate a report to the EPA on the state of lakes across [...]
Posted in Biology News on Oct 22nd, 2008
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Originally uploaded by Meredith Durmowicz
Our biology and biotechnology freshmen enjoyed a pizza party with their mentors last week. There was plenty of food and fun as the freshmen hung out with their mentors, got to know each other and traded stories about their experiences so far.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2008
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Originally uploaded by Meredith Durmowicz
The College Students Against Poverty club and some friends manned the cotton candy booth at VillaFest’s Family Day this past Saturday. It was one of the most popular booths at the Fest and a good time was had by all!
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2008
Look around Knott Hall and the Science Center for opportunities to recycle your bottles and cans. Kathleen Lageman, Steve Mrozinski, and Jorge Galindo designed and constructed these cardboard recycling containers and we hope that they’ll be put to good use. Recycle!
Posted in Biology News, Biology Student Research, Uncategorized on Oct 9th, 2008
Fall 2008 capstone students 2
Originally uploaded by Meredith Durmowicz
In the last couple of weeks, we heard from some more of our senior capstone students about the exciting research they are doing…
Courtney N. described the work she is doing investigating anaerobic bacteria that are capable of bioremediating PCBs in marine, estuarine and freshwater environments.
Sarah S. described [...]