On Wed 20 Nov 2024, BS 400, the capstone Senior Seminar course for Biology majors met for the last time this semester. The students presented posters they had made to other students and faculty in the department. Dr. Travis Hagey, Associate Professor of Biology, is the instructor for the course…

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This semester, the Dept of Sciences and Mathematics is debuting a new course, BSB 171 Biology I. The course is part of the SEA-PHAGES consortium overseen by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. SEA-PHAGES is an acronym for Science Education Alliance – Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science. In the…

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In preparation for teaching the new BSB 171 Biology I course, Dr. Davida Crossley, Associate Professor of Microbiology, took a summer workshop held by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at their labs in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Robert Sample, Associate Professor of Microbiology, and Dr. Brian Burnes, Associate Professor of…

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