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Department Newsletter
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Latest Issues: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, 2018 (PDF)
Seminar Series
Join us on Friday afternoons to hear from local speakers and visiting scholars. Seminars are held at 3 p.m. in room B07 at the School of Media and Public Affairs building unless otherwise specified.
December 2nd: Internal Seminars with speakers Shreya Prapneja, Christina Pavloudi, and Jennifer Brennan. Topics: Lung & Bronchus Cancer, the Deadliest Cancer in the World, and the Importance of Lung Cancer Screening; Targeted cultivation of novel microbial lineages from steam vent biofilms of Hawaii; Pachycephalosaurian Dinosaurs: a new look at systematics and their anatomy.
December 9th: Internal Seminars with speakers Ian Wilenzik, Awanti Shastri, and Allyson Evans. Topics: Northern Pangaean origin and early Laurasian regionalization by crown Squamata; Effects of climate change on social insect behavior; A novel form of extreme jaw protrusion in the hingemouth, Phractolaemus ansorgii.
News from the Biology Department
Student Research Shines at CCAS Showcase
Undergraduate and graduate students, including junior biology major Jacob Washton, displayed their scholarly work at the 2024 CCAS Research Showcase.
Making Hiss-tory: How Snakes Scaled Evolutionary Heights
A study by Biology Professor Alexander Pyron reveals that from losing legs to stretching skulls, snakes evolved faster and with more variety than other species.