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Jennifer Wolff named new LTC director
14 November 2022Jennifer Wolff, Professor of Biology and the Director of the Neuroscience program, has been named incoming Director of the Perlman Learning and Teaching Center beginning in the spring of 2023 through the…
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Dan Hernández and Roger Faust ’91 present in Puerto Rico
31 October 2022Dan Hernández and Roger Faust (Biology ’19) each gave talks at the Society for the Advancement of Chicano/Hispanic and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.…
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Biology junior Ariel Alexander chosen for award
14 October 2022Ariel Alexander ’24 was chosen as one of 10 students nationwide to share a $50,000 Pediatric Oncology Student Training Program grant from the pediatric cancer charity Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation.
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Associate professor of biology Raka Mitra gave a talk at the American Society of Plant Biologists meeting titled, “The Molecular Battle Between the Bacterial Wilt Pathogen and its Plant Hosts,” built upon…
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Rika Anderson, Associate Professor of Biology, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF #2205254) for “Collaborative Research: RUI: Microbes need frenemies: unveiling microbial relationships with protist and…
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Senior lecturer Sarah Deel presented a lab she created at the Association for Biology Laboratory Education conference last year. Zia NoiseCat ’23 assisted during the three-hour online lab session. The lab and associated instructional…
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Mark McKone publishes a paper in American Naturalist
13 June 2022The journal American Naturalist recently accepted a paper for publication by Mark McKone, Towsley Professor of Biology. The title is “Loss of avian intromittent organs as a sperm competition strategy:…
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Dan Hernández wins Carleton triathlon
6 June 2022Biology chair Dan Hernández finished first in the annual Reading Day triathlon. After 750 yards of swimming, 17 miles of biking, and a 5k run, he says he was surprised…
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Stephan Zweifel, Matt Rand and two Carleton grads co-author article on Minnesota bullsnake
27 May 2022In their continued quest to draw attention to the enigmatic Minnesota bullsnake, Professors of Biology Stephan Zweifel and Matt Rand have published an article co-authored with Avery Swearer ’18 and…
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Mark McKone, Towsley Professor of Biology, and two Biology majors, Evelyn Williams (’05) and Jared Beck (’14), have recently published a paper in the Journal of Vegetation Science. The title…