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September 23, 2019

Wisenden published in Journal of Animal Ecology

Brian Wisenden, Biosciences Department, published a paper in the Journal of Animal Ecology entitled “Evidence of incipient alarm signalling in fish” (see https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.13062). The editorial board of JAE invites “In Focus” articles such as this one to highlight a particularly impactful paper (Bairos-Novak et al. 2019). Wisenden was chosen to author the In Focus because his chapter on “The cue-signal […]

Biosciences
September 18, 2019

Drs. Wallace, Brisch publish article in The American Biology Teacher

Alison Wallace and Ellen Brisch, faculty from the Biosciences Department who teach the first- and second-semester introductory biology courses, participated in a study to introduce socio-scientific issues through writing activities to large lecture classes as a way to learn biological concepts involving cancer. Their collaborators are Dr. Meena Balgopol (who taught at MSUM 2008-2009) and Dr. Paul Laybourn, both currently […]

Biosciences
September 3, 2019

MSUM students participating in classroom-based undergraduate research project

MSUM students are now participating in a unique Classroom-Based Undergraduate Research (CURE) project, which aims to tackle antibiotic resistance. “SEA-PHAGES (Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science) is a two-semester, discovery-based undergraduate research course that begins with simple digging in the soil to find new viruses, but progresses through a variety of microbiology techniques and eventually to complex […]

Academics
September 3, 2019

Wallace, Kramar and students attend Nutrient Network Workshops

Dr. Alison Wallace from Biosciences and Dr. David Kramar from Anthropology and Earth Sciences attended the 2019 Nutrient Network Workshops at the University of Minnesota campus in St. Paul with biosciences students Patrice Delaney and Andie Wood. The workshops were a great opportunity to collaborate with research teams from around the world (Argentina to Mongolia), present the current work at […]

Academics
July 19, 2019

Faculty attended Council on Undergraduate Research Conference last month

Lisa Nawrot (Psy), Sumali Pandey (Bio) and Donna Stockrahm (Bio) attended the CUR Undergraduate Research Programs conference June 27-29 at the Ohio State University.  You might know CUR from its signature student programs — Posters on the Hill and NCUR, the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. But there are more resources and events for both faculty and students. CUR divisions […]

Biosciences
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