Biology

Indiana Jones or Biology Superstar? (WBGO-FM Newark)

26 Jul 2008

(WBGO News, 7/25/2008) Some spend their summers at the shore or the lake and take it easy for a change. But one biology professor at Rutgers University in Camden will be taking a different tack. He\'s traveling to two different extreme destinations – the Amazon in Brazil and the Mt. McKinley range in Alaska – to study worms.

Student, Prof Present Research on Invasive Weed (Newswise)

25 Jul 2008

A Valparaiso University biology major and his faculty adviser will discuss how native wildflowers may be able to survive the onslaught of a poisonous invasive weed during a presentation at the annual conference of the Ecological Society of America in August. Valparaiso is a member of the Council on Undergraduate Research.

Scientists Open Columbia's New Computational Biology Lab (Columbia News)

25 Jul 2008

In early May scientists at Columbia University gathered in room 607 of the Sherman Fairchild building on Morningside campus to celebrate the new Pe'er/Bussemaker Lab for Systems Biology—the first of its kind at the University.