Department News

Raka Mitra, professor of biology, and Neda Tehrani ’23 published a paper in the journal Current Opinion in Microbiology titled, “Plant pathogens and symbionts target the plant nucleus.” Neda, a…

Nancy Braker ’81, Puzak Family Director of the Cowling Arboretum, gave an invited talk, “McKnight Prairie: A 50-year love story,” at the annual meeting of The Prairie Enthusiasts, a conservation…

Dan Hernández, chair and professor of biology, gave two talks at the Regenerative Poultry Convergence held in Northfield on March 23 and 24, discussing his research on the ecological impacts…

Clara Mayfield won the mile run at the MIAC Championships in St Paul with a time of 4:50.20, breaking her own school record and besting the MIAC Championship’s record, that…

Susan Rundell Singer, named 12th President of St. Olaf College and the college’s first female president. Rundell Singer spent 30 years at Carleton as the Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of…

Rou-Jia Sung, assistant professor of biology, published a paper with collaborators entitled, “Equity analysis of an augmented reality-mediated group activity in a college biochemistry classroom,” in the Journal of Research in…

As the principal investigator of a massive new grant from the National Science Foundation, Amanda Hund ’10, visiting research assistant professor of biology, will lead a network of students, scientists, and…

Mark McKone,Towsley professor of biology, published a paper in the current issue of The American Naturalist titled, “Loss of Avian Intromittent Organs as a Sperm Competition Strategy: A Race to Be Last.”

Rou-Jia Sung, assistant professor of biology, gave a talk at the Cell Biology 2022 meeting in Washington, D.C. entitled, “Gesticulating Biochemistry: Exploring the Impact of Using Augmented Reality Models on Students’…

Raka Mitra, professor of biology, recently co-published a paper titled, “Tomato Deploys Defence and Growth Simultaneously to Resist Bacterial Wilt Disease,” in the journal Plant, Cell & Environment.