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Congratulations to Professor Debby Walser-Kuntz
23 September 2019The Board of Trustees recently appointed Debby R. Walser-Kuntz, as the endowed chair for the Herman and Gertrude Mosier Stark Professor of Biology and the Natural Sciences. -
Hernandez to work with Doris Duke Conservation Scholars
3 September 2019Dan Hernandez, Associate Professor of Biology, will serve as a Faculty Instructor with the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program at UC Santa Cruz, led by Erika Zavaleta. The two-year conservation leadership program exposes early-career college students to the field of environmental conservation through field research, leadership, and professional training. As contracted program staff, Hernández works closely with the students to help design and conduct research projects in a variety of California’s spectacular landscapes.
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Dan Hernández Awarded DNR Project
19 August 2019Dan HernándezAssociate Professor of Biology, has been awarded a contract with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to participate in an adaptive management project to study the control of…
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Rou-Jia Sung Receives NSF Funding for BiochemAR App
19 April 2019Assistant Professor of Biology Rou-Jia Sung has received NSF funding for a project to develop an augmented reality based app for iOS and Android devices as a tool for teaching macromolecular structure and function.
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Rou-Jia Sung and Andrew Wilson are highlighted in The Scientist
10 January 2019Rou-Jia Sung, assistant professor of biology, has been working in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Wilson at Academic Technologies to develop BiochemAR, an Augmented Reality app containing different 3D visualizations with accompanying classroom learning materials for that can be broadly used in a variety of courses.
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Rose Kantor ’10: “The microbial world within water reuse”
9 October 2018Rose Kantor ’10, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California – Berkeley presents a biology seminar talk: “The microbial world within water reuse.”
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Kait Libbey ’19 featured in Carleton Now
20 September 2018Senior biology major Kait Libbey was interviewed about her summer job working as a junior ranger educator at a San Francisco an environmental justice youth center funded by the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.
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Welcome Mike Nishizaki to the Carleton Biology Department!
17 September 2018Mike is an aquatic biologist with research interests that center on the interaction between organisms and their physical environment. His work primarily focuses on issues of ecophysiology and fluid mechanics related to marine/freshwater invertebrates, and involves a combination of lab, field, and modeling approaches. This includes the array of physiological, ecological, and developmental responses that organisms employ when faced with environmental uncertainty (e.g., changes temperature, salinity, fluid dynamics).
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Rika Anderson, Assistant Professor of Biology:
17 September 2018Rika has received NASA funding for a project to improve how scientists recognize whether an exoplanet can or does support life. Anderson’s work in “The Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL): Advancing the Search for Life Beyond the Solar System” project will contribute to NASA’s broader “Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS)” network. As a co-investigator with Victoria Meadows of the University of Washington-Seattle, Rika will examine the early evolution of microbial life on Earth. She will work with a Carleton undergraduate researcher on bioinformatics tasks over the course of the five-year grant, and attend the Astrobiology Science Conference every other year.
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Presentation on Research Opportunities in Biology
7 March 2017Senior biology majors/SDAs Jackson Raynor and Georgia Schmitt recently hosted an event about finding summer research opportunities and funding.
