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BIOLOGY DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

 

BIOLOGY STUDENT NEWS:


Small scholarship opportunities for Biology Majors:

  1. scitable from Nature education is having a "portrait of my dna" Scholarship essay contest for up to $1,000 (plus valuable recognition from the Nature publishing group).  The deadline is july 31st, 2009!


Three newly-converted Biology (writing-intensive)

"W" courses will be offered starting in Fall 2009:

* BIO436 Cell BiologY

* BIO350 Anatomy of vascular plants

* Bio339 Plant physiology


The Biology Club will be meeting periodically this semester.  If you have any questions, please contact Pres. Paula Osses at ossesp1@southernct.edu.

 

CONNECTING BIOLOGY MAJORS:

Biology majors now have a virtual group space on the internal MySCSU "Groups" server.  Look for the departmental calendar, photos, and other messages.  Students can submit material as well!  In addition, there is a MCDB (molecular, cellular, & developmental biology) interest sub-group at the same site.  To become a member, simply go the link above, and request membership!


 

BIOLOGY FACULTY NEWS:

Dr. Grace and four of his graduate students attended the 38th annual Benthic Ecology Meeting in Corpus Christi Texas from March 4-March 8 2009 and everyone presented.

Dr. Edgington has been competitively accepted into a 5-day NSF-funded "Silencing Genomes" CSHL DNALC workshop at Howard University in Washington DC.  "This workshop on RNA interference (RNAi) brings faculty up-to-the-minute with this revolutionary discovery. In labs and computer work, participants learn all the steps needed to go from genomic sequence information to induce RNAi to silence individual genes in the roundworm C. elegans."

An article about a research project by Leon Yacher, professor of
geography, and Dwight Smith, Chairperson of the Biology Department,
appeared in the New Haven Register. The two are studying the Long-whiskered owlet, which is one of the world's smallest and rarest owls. Its wingspan is only about four inches. The bird lives in the mountains of Peru.  Here is a link to the story.