Biology News
March 9, 2012Marty Condon, professor of biology, will talk about ”Flies and More Flies: Diversity From the Tropics to our Own Backyards” at the Science Interest Group lecture at 11:10 a.m. on March 22 in West Science. Condon will address why there are so many species of insects. Insects that feed on plants are model systems for studies [...]
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October 17, 2011Dr. Nelson G. Hairston Jr., Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Environmental Science, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University, will lecture on Oct 24th on effects of pollution and cleanup efforts on ecosystems. Onondaga Lake in New York is reputed to be the most polluted lake in North America because of chemical industry [...]
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May 26, 2011Barbara Christie-Pope, professor of biology at Cornell College has been selected as one of six Fellows of the FUTURE in Biomedicine program at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Christie-Pope, together with Cornell undergraduate Federica Otalora-Roselli, will spend two months this summer engaged in an intensive research experience in the laboratory of Robert [...]
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March 8, 2011Genome sequencing and other technologies are enabling scientists to acquire enormous data on plant traits, but there is still a need for understanding basic biology and gene function. This lecture will be presented on March 15th by Dennis Halterman ’94, assistant professor of plant pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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February 24, 2011Jeff Murray will present on March 3rd on the challenges and rewards of studying the genetic and environmental causes of birth defects and pre-term birth. His presentation will emphasize how programs develop and the importance of international collaborations in addressing these major causes of infant death worldwide. Murray is a professor of neonatology and genetics, [...]
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September 21, 2010On Sep 28th, Jane Sande, M.D., will discuss the medical, social, and economic impact of sickle cell disease and curing the disease via bone marrow transplantation. Dr. Sande is medical director for The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Their sickle cell disease program is at [...]
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July 6, 2010Daryl J. Boness ’72 was confirmed last week as chair of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission. Boness, a retired scientist who spent most of his career at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., was profiled in the most recent edition of the Cornell Report. The commission provides independent oversight of the marine mammal conservation policies [...]
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May 10, 2010Since 2005, Cornell students have regularly joined Dr. Larry Dorr ’63 and other medical professionals on Operation Walk, a medical mission that performs hip and knee replacements in countries such as China, Peru, and Viet Nam. During the trips, students observe surgeries and assist with physical therapy and many other aspects of the project. The [...]
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March 16, 2010In the spring of 2009, the H1N1 flu pandemic elicited an emergency response from health officials around the globe. Throughout the fall, nine Cornell students studied the outbreak from a variety of angles, including historic accounts of previous pandemics and scientific papers on the H1N1 virus, guided by Professor of Biology Barbara Christie-Pope. In February [...]
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February 4, 2010Marty Condon’s path-breaking research, which was featured on the cover of Science magazine in May 2008, has exposed extraordinary and surprising levels of species diversity in tropical plant/insect communities. With a 2010 $270,000 National Science Foundation grant in hand, Condon and her research team are poised to push their investigations even further. Condon and her [...]
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February 3, 2010UPDATE: You can read Biology Professor Marty Condon’s monograph here. MOUNT VERNON — Cornell College Biology Professor Marty Condon has been awarded $270,769 from the National Science Foundation to continue her research uncovering extraordinary levels of tropical diversity. The research, which was featured on the cover of Science magazine in May 2008, addresses a major [...]
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March 19, 2009MOUNT VERNON – Pavla Brachova was awarded a grant from the Gerace Research Centre (GRC) in San Salvador, Bahamas in order to isolate and study the genetics of fire coral this June. Brachova is a Cornell College senior who plans to pursue a Ph.D. in reproductive biology. She also recently represented Cornell at Iowa Private [...]
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January 13, 2009Thomas Edwin (“Ed”) Rogers, biology professor emeritus, died Saturday, January 3, 2009, in Iowa City. He was 91. To share comments and memories of T. Edwin “Ed” Rogers, visit his remembrance page. Memorial services will be announced at a later date. Ed Rogers was born March 19, 1917, in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, the son of [...]
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January 7, 2009MOUNT VERNON – In celebration of the double anniversary of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday and 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, Cornell College will host a number of speakers and events commemorating Darwin’s life and work. All lectures are free and open to the public. Dr. Robert T. Pennock will kick [...]
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January 6, 2009Since 1961, the Wilderness Field Station in northern Minnesota has provided Cornell students with a spectacular nature-based classroom. Academic departments ranging from biology to English to politics now take advantage of the field station during first block each year as part of the annual Cornell Wilderness Term. Each course embarks on a canoe journey into [...]
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September 22, 2008Britton Zuccarelli ’07 earned a full-tuition scholarship to the University of Kansas School of Medicine, and plans to eventually practice bilingual medicine with a specialization in adolescent medicine, family practice or pediatrics. As an undergraduate she majored in biochemistry and molecular biology and Spanish, with a minor in chemistry. How was your first year of [...]
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July 3, 2008Jessica Johnson ’07 completed her first year of Medical School at the University of Missouri in 2008. At Cornell, she majored in mathematics, minored in biology, and pursued a wide range of activities including NCAA volleyball, research on rainforest plant/insect relationships, an internship in prosthetics, and a month in Guatemala assisting with joint replacements through [...]
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May 15, 2008In an article published this week in Science, Cornell College biology professor Marty Condon and coauthors turn current thought on plant-feeding insect diversity on its head. The study used an examination of fruit fly diversity in Latin America to conclude that typical niche diversity tracking can lead to undercounting of species. DNA analysis resulted in [...]
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May 7, 2008Jeff Welder ’07 says his Cornell education prepared him well for the first-year rigors of medical school at the University of Iowa. “Cornell did a great job preparing me for medical school,” he says. “The courses in biochemistry and molecular biology really pushed me to figure out how I learn best. So when I was [...]
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May 7, 2008Elizabeth Bach ’07 earned a prestigious McElroy Fellowship as a Cornell senior, and is now studying prairie soil ecology as a graduate student at Southern Illinois University. At Cornell she majored in biology and environmental studies, with a minor in chemistry. What are you studying in graduate school? My thesis project is investigating changes in [...]
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May 1, 2008Each February, Cornell courses in biology, geology, and anthropology leave the cold Iowa winter behind for a month in the Bahamas. The Gerace Research Center on the island of San Salvador provides an excellent facility for ongoing Cornell studies of modern and ancient reef systems in the area. Science students and faculty have focused especially [...]
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January 11, 2008MOUNT VERNON — Cornell biology lecturer and lab instructor Laura Krouse will receive the 2007 Spencer Award for Sustainable Agriculture at the annual meeting of Practical Farmers of Iowa Jan. 11-12 in Des Moines. Krouse is the first small farmer to receive the award established in 2002 by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture to [...]
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October 24, 2007MOUNT VERNON — One of the nation’s leading prairie and savanna restorationists will speak at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, at Cornell College’s Kimmel Theatre. Pauline Drobney will discuss lessons learned from 15 years of research and management on the prototype tallgrass prairie and savanna ecosystem in a talk titled “Prairie: It’s not just a [...]
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September 1, 2007Danielle Bowen came to Cornell with interests in math and biology and left with a prestigious scholarship and solid grounding in the cutting-edge area of statistical genetics. She says her eyes were first opened to the burgeoning field in Bioinformatics, a computer science course taught by Andy Wildenberg. She later joined Wildenberg for computer-based genetic [...]
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May 2, 2007MOUNT VERNON — Elizabeth Bach, a senior biology and environmental studies major at Cornell College, has been awarded the R.J. McElroy Fellowship. The award provides $10,000 per year of graduate study for up to three years. Bach, of Richmond, Ind., will pursue graduate studies in soil ecology in tallgrass prairies through the plant biology department [...]
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March 14, 2007MOUNT VERNON — Senior Alyssa Borowske has been awarded a Fulbright grant to study the impacts of Australian magpies on native bird species in New Zealand. She will work with researchers at the University of Waikato using radio telemetry to track habitat use of two endemic species, the Tui and the Wood Pigeon, in areas [...]
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April 17, 2006MOUNT VERNON — Indian Creek Nature Center will celebrate Earth Day weekend with the dedication of a seven-acre prairie Sunday, April 23, for Paul Christiansen, emeritus professor of biology at Cornell College who devoted his career to studying, managing, preserving and restoring the tall-grass prairie. The dedication is from 1 to 4 p.m. at the [...]
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March 29, 2006MOUNT VERNON – Danielle Bowen, a Cornell College junior from Orion, Ill., has received a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the premier undergraduate award for students interested in the fields of science, mathematics and engineering. The award covers expenses for college tuition, fees, books and room and board, up to $7,500. Scholars are nominated by their [...]
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October 10, 2005MOUNT VERNON — The author of the top biological science book for 2004 will speak Monday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. in Kimmel Theatre at Cornell College. James Spotila, professor of environmental science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, will lecture on “Sea Turtles: Ecology, Behavior and Conservation.” Admission is free. After the talk, Spotila will [...]
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