Recent News
Fraser Lab Publishes Study on Dental Stem Cells
November 12, 2019
An important new paper describing the development of shark teeth has been published in Nature Scientific Reports by Biology Assistant Professor, Gareth Fraser. One remarkable feature of shark teeth is that they are continually replaced whereas humans have only two… Read More
Biology grad students receive dissertation awards
November 5, 2019
Two Ph.D. students in Biology, Harrison Jones and Patrick Milligan, will receive Dissertation Fellowships during Spring 2020 funded by the Charles Vincent and Heidi Cole McLaughlin Endowment to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Both are Ph.D. students in… Read More
Graduate Student Chris Krieg Receives NSF Post-doctoral Fellowship
October 9, 2019
Christopher Krieg, a Ph.D. student in Emily Sessa’s lab, has been awarded a 2019 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. The Fellowship will fund Chris’ post-doctoral research on the ecology and physiology of cycads, an ancient and primitive… Read More
Graduate Student Zachary Emberts Receives NSF Post-doctoral Fellowship
October 2, 2019
Zachary Emberts, a recent Ph.D. from Colette St. Mary’s and Christine Miller’s labs, has been awarded a 2019 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. The Fellowship will fund Zach’s post-doctoral research on the evolution of animal weapons,… Read More
Sargasso Research
August 20, 2019
Nerine Constant and Alexandra Gulick recently returned from a very successful expedition on a Greenpeace research vessel in the Sargasso Sea where they evaluated the thermal properties of Sargassum mats — important developmental habitat for sea turtles — and how those properties… Read More