Biology
Students Will Present Research at Annual Meeting of Pa. Academy of Science
Eight biology majors will present research papers with their faculty mentors at the 88th annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science March 30-April 1 at Cedar Crest College. Amanda Balaban ’12 (Bethesda, Md.) will present with Bernard Fried, Kreider Professor Emeritus of Biology, on Echinostoma caproni, parasitic flatworms that can invade humans, domestic animals, [...]
John Eaton ’48 to be Featured Lecturer on Titanic Centennial Memorial Cruise
By Lori Burke Exactly 100 years after the launch of RMS Titanic, John Eaton ’48, of Cold Spring, N.Y., will offer historical context on the 12-night memorial cruise that will follow the fated ship’s route through the Atlantic, including two days at the wreck site with New York City as final port of call. The [...]
Spotted on Campus With…Carly Feiro ’12
Carly Feiro ’12 (Mount Vernon, Wash.), a biology major and outfielder on the softball team, discusses her work conserving the environment, research she is presenting at a national conference, and what it’s like being a team captain. What do you enjoy about your major? I love being able to do field work and being [...]
Ellen Hughes ’13 Coauthors Research Published in Medical Journal
“Medicine and lab work have and will always be passions for me,” says Ellen Hughes ’13. Recently, she got an inside look at both areas—while helping to author an article about the tools that doctors use to analyze patients’ hearts. Hughes (Mountain Top, Pa.), a double major in biology and French, was co-author of the [...]
Beyond Biology: New Health and Life Sciences Initiative Will Prepare Students to Solve Real-World Problems
Tackling complex national and global problems requires knowledge from many different disciplines. No one science can provide a solution; expertise and input from physicians, scientists, politicians, lawyers, and policy makers is needed. At Lafayette, the new minor program in the health and life sciences provides just the intellectual and interdisciplinary education students need to bring [...]
Students Learn Biology through Problem-Solving in New Interdisciplinary Course
This spring, a new course combining biology and computer science will provide students with ways to build connections between disciplines and new techniques to approach difficult biological problems. The course, Modeling-Based Applications to Biology, can be taken as an alternative to General Biology 102. Developed as a result of a Mellon Course Development grant, it [...]
Diane Mitchell Young ’05 Helped Star of Dolphin Tale Recover
For marine biologist Diane Mitchell Young ’05, the 2011 megahit movie Dolphin Tale offers more than just the inspirational story of one real-life dolphin, Winter, who survived with the help of a prosthetic tail. “Yes, Winter is one very special story,” says Young, a biology graduate, who led the effort to rehabilitate the injured dolphin at Clearwater [...]
Sharon Smith Donahue ’86 Plays Key Role in NASA’s New Space Telescope
By Tiffany Bentley When the James Webb Space Telescope launches in 2018 as the successor to Hubble, it will look deeper into space — beyond the reach of existing instruments — to see the earliest stars and galaxies that formed in the Universe. It will detect stars approximately 280 million years older than those seen [...]
Powerful Resources: EXCEL Scholars Program Allows Students to Work on High-Level Faculty Research
The research Tyler Bamford ’12 (Souderton, Pa.) performed through the EXCEL Scholars program has helped him get closer to his goal of one day becoming a college professor. Bamford has received the prestigious Beinecke Scholarship, which will provide him with $34,000 toward graduate school in the arts, humanities, or social sciences. As an EXCEL Scholar, [...]
Anna Edlund Finds Surprising Ways to Get Students Excited about Biology
It’s hard not to get excited about science when in the company of Anna Edlund, assistant professor of biology, whose passion for the study of sperm, eggs, embryos, and sex manifests itself in surprising ways. Take for example her collaboration with Lelavision, a performance company that uses music, dance, and sculpture to communicate scientific research [...]
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