Biology
Student-Faculty Team Works to Understand Causes of Mad Cow, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s Diseases
Justin Hines, assistant professor of chemistry, and a team of students are conducting experiments that could lead to greater knowledge about diseases like Mad Cow, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s. Hines, who joined Lafayette in fall 2011 after being named an Education Mentor in Life Sciences by the National Academies, has teamed up with Milan Patel ’12, [...]
Memorial Resolutions for Donald McCluskey ’36 and Mary Jane Bradford
At its Nov. 8 meeting, the faculty adopted the following memorial resolution for Donald McCluskey ’36, associate professor emeritus of English, who died Sept. 20, and at its March 6 meeting, the memorial resolution for Mary Jane Bradford, associate professor emerita of biology, who died Nov. 18. Associate Professor Emeritus Donald McCluskey was born in [...]
Kareema Gray ’94 Is Involved in Social Issues as Professor and Activist
With both intellectual and practical expertise in the field of social work, Kareema J. Gray ’94 expresses her passion as a professor, adviser, researcher, and community leader. As assistant professor of social work and undergraduate program director for the Department of Social Work, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, S.C., Gray says her favorite course to teach [...]
Paige Triola ’14 Explores Environmental Conservation in the Costa Rican Rainforest
By Michele Tallarita ’12 Paige Triola ’14 (Chalfont, Pa.) remembers the moment she stepped into a rainforest for the first time. “It’s really humid, it’s extremely green, and it just looks like every square inch is taken up by some sort of living thing,” she says. “It was also very noisy. The birds were squawking [...]
Prof. Anna Edlund Mixes Religion, Art, and Science while Traveling to India and Sweden
A few months ago, Anna Edlund opened her email account to not one but two pleasant surprises. First, her audience with the Dalai Lama was scheduled for June. Second, she had been awarded a Fulbright grant. Edlund is among four biology professors spending two weeks in India teaching Western science and biology to the Dalai [...]
John Eaton ’48 Is Featured Lecturer on Titanic 100th Anniversary Memorial Cruise
By Lori Burke and Tiffany Bentley Over the stern of the MS Balmoral on April 15, John Eaton ’48 watched as memorial wreaths bobbed on the ocean’s surface, miles above the wreck of the RMS Titanic. As the Balmoral’s orchestra played the hymn, Nearer, My God, to Thee, Eaton was startled by a realization. “I [...]
$800,000 Grant Will Help Prepare Students to be Leaders in Science Research and Medicine
With major support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Lafayette will make its already strong biology program even more effective in preparing students to be leaders in science research and medicine. A $800,000 grant will enable Lafayette to expand the number of real-world research experiences for students and increase the diversity of students who study [...]
Lafayette Honors Students for Academic Excellence
Lafayette honored more than 120 students for academic excellence at the annual All-College Honors Convocation April 29 in Colton Chapel. Awards and prizes recognized outstanding academic success in all four of Lafayette’s academic divisions—engineering, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. This spring, 47 students will join Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most respected undergraduate [...]
Fish Genus Named in Honor of John H. Caruso ’69
Fish biologists have named a newly identified genus of fossil anglerfishes after John H. Caruso ’69, professor of practice, ecology, and evolutionary biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, La. Caruso, a biology graduate and assistant professor of biology at Lafayette from 1977-83, is an ichthyologist (a zoologist who studies fishes) and one of only two biologists in [...]
Biology Professor Bob Kurt Works to Unlock the Mysteries of the Immune System
Some say ignorance is bliss. But for Bob Kurt, associate professor of biology, what is not known is a doorway to discovery, especially when unlocking the mysteries of the immune system and its effects on cancerous tumors. Since 2000, Kurt has secured more than $1 million in grants to chart new directions in understanding cancer, [...]
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