Please join us in welcoming the students who have qualified for entry into BBB (the Biological Honor Society) this spring! Inductions will be held on Friday, April 6, at 3:30 pm in Sullivan 101. We hope that you will come to honor and welcome these exceptional students.
As part of the USAID-funded Middle East Regional Cooperation (MERC) grant, Gideon Wasserberg plays a central role as a consultant and mentor in a collaborative Palestinian-Israel project aimed at combatting Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) in the West Bank of the Palestinian Authority. The MERC program promotes peaceful cooperation and cultural exchange… Continue reading…
On Saturday, 10 February 2018, the Triad Tech Savvy Find Your STEM event was held at the Joint School of Nanotechnology and Nanoengineering. This event was designed for ninth through twelfth grade girls from in and around Guilford County to help them learn more about academic and career successes as women… Continue reading…
At the 2018 American Bee Research Conference in Reno (NV),our post-docs Dr. Esmaeil Amiri and Dr. Kaira Wagoner, as well as graduate students Shilpi Bhatia and Taylor Reams, presented their recent research results. Kaira and Shilpi received Travel Awards to attend this conference, while Taylor was honored with a Student Presentation… Continue reading…
One of our post-docs, Dr. Han Li, has been featured in a PBS documentary about saving the bats that was produced by Environmental Studies students at UNC. It highlighted the partnership with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. It can be found here.
Congratulations to Dr. Olav Rueppell for his award from the DOD DA Army Research Office for his project “Studies of the Plasticity of Stress Defense Induction in the Social Honey Bee Model.”
Congratulations to Dr. Matina Kalcounis-Rueppell for her award from the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission for her project “Acoustic Monitoring of Bats in North Carolina.”
Happy holidays from the Biology Department!
A highlight of UNCG books that includes one from our own Ann Somers: https://newsandfeatures.uncg.edu/guide-to-winter-holiday-reading/ An article in the Chronicle for Higher Education from our own Dean John Kiss: https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-Im-Reading-/242015
From the USDA, Sally was awarded a grant entitled: “Global patterns of grazer effects on plant biodiversity: the role of functional traits and evolutionary history of dominant plant species.”
