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  • Biology Professor Daniel Hernández to collaborate on USDA Climate-Smart Commodities project Outside link

    1 May 2024

    Daniel Hernández, professor of biology, has received a subaward through the USDA NRCS Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program. Led by the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance, “Climate-Smart Chicken and Feed: Scaling Climate-Smart Grain and Poultry Commodity Production as a System-Level Climate Solution for the Midwest” will support efforts to scale climate-smart commodity production through diversified grain rotations and an agroforestry-based regenerative poultry system.

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  • Biology Associate Professor Rika Anderson ’06 co-authors paper on deep ocean microbial “jumping genes” with Carleton student and alums.

    9 April 2024

    Rika Anderson ’06, associate professor of biology, Troy Osborn ’25, and alumni Juntao Zhong ’23, Thais del Rosario Hernández ’20, and Sasha Kyrysyuk ’20 published a paper titled, “Increasing transposase abundance with ocean depth correlates with a particle-associated lifestyle” in the journal mSystems. They investigated why “jumping genes” in microbial genomes increase in abundance with depth in the oceans and showed that it is linked to microbial warfare on densely packed particles.

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  • Biology Associate Professor Rou-Jia Sung co-authors paper on student problem solving.

    9 April 2024

    Rou-Jia Sung co-authored a paper with Jeremy Hsu and Stanley Lo titled, “Variations in Student Approaches to Problem Solving in Undergraduate Biology Education” published in CBE-Life Sciences Education.

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  • Towsley Professor McKone, Jared Beck ’14, and Stuart Wagenius ’91 publish paper in “Ecology.”

    19 February 2024

    Towsley Professor Mark McKone has co-authored a paper published in Ecology titled “Masting, fire-stimulated flowering, and the evolutionary ecology of synchronized reproduction.” Carleton alums Jared Beck ’14 and Stuart Wagenius ’91 are co-authors. The paper includes data collected annually over 23 consecutive years at Hayden Prairie in Iowa, with the help of more than 60 Carleton students.

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  • Paloma Bravo ’24 Receives Prestigious Grant For Research on BPA’s Impact on Zebrafish

    9 January 2024

    Congratulations to Paloma Bravo ’24 for being awarded a Grant-In-Aid-of-Research from Sigma Xi for her project entitled “Using CellROX™ Deep Red to assess BPA’s impact on reactive oxygen species production in response to injury in zebrafish”. Paloma is working in the research lab of Professor Debby Walser-Kuntz, and she was one of 11 undergraduates across the country to receive funding.

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  • Baggett ’23 and Gatewood ’23 receive Fulbright Awards

    8 June 2023

    Biology seniors Sophie Baggett and Thomas Gatewood each received Fulbright Awards this year from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, which gives college students and recent graduates the opportunity to travel the…

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  • Mitra and Tehrani ’23 publish paper with original artwork

    30 March 2023

    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…

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  • Director of the Cowling Arboretum gives talk on McKnight Prairie

    30 March 2023

    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…

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  • Hernández speaks on regenerative agricultural at local event

    30 March 2023

    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…

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  • Clara Mayfield ’23 breaks record in winning the mile run to rank No. 1 in the country

    2 March 2023

    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…

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