May 21, 2013
Dr. Denise Garcia joined the Department of Biology this spring as an assistant professor. A California transplant and lover of coffee, Garcia recalls the pivotal class that shifted her career focus from passing the bar to understanding the brain....
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April 17, 2013
As part of city’s vibrant scientific and technological community, Drexel University will play a big role in the 2013 Philadelphia Science Festival and Philly Tech Week on April 18-28. From a 29-story video game, to cutting-edge robotics, to an interactive Jazz concert, Drexel’s students,...
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March 27, 2013
Xiaobo Bai won the first prize award for best poster presentation at the Septin 2013 Conference in Hefei, China...
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March 26, 2013
Drexel’s Constantine N. Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (PISB) was awarded the Philadelphia Project of the Year by the Pennsylvania chapter of the March of Dimes in March. Jim Tucker, senior vice president for Student Life and Administrative Services, accepted the award on behalf of Dre...
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March 22, 2013
One molecule makes nerve cells grow longer. Another one makes them grow branches. These new experimental manipulations have taken researchers a step closer to understanding how nerve cells are repaired at their farthest reaches after injury. The research was recently...
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March 11, 2013
Thousands of miles away on Bioko Island of Equatorial Guinea, Drexel researchers have been working to save the endangered primate species Mandrillus leucophaeus, or the drill monkey. These rare animals are threatened with extinction due to the increasing bushmeat trade in West Africa. The Drill Proj...
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February 06, 2013
Long before a single plant was positioned into the biowall in the Constantine N. Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, a group of Drexel researchers knew it was coming—and they knew, too, just how valuable it would be....
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December 05, 2012
Simara Price, 5th year graduate student in the lab of Dr. Shivanthi Anandan in the Department of Biology, has been awarded an American Society for Microbiology/ Burroughs Wellcome Fund Science Teaching Fellowship....
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October 20, 2012
On November 2, 2012, researchers from across the U.S. will gather in the Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building for a mini-symposium on CHARGE syndrome. CHARGE syndrome is a developmental disorder that affects roughly 1 in 10,000 births. Children with the syndrome are often born with serious birth ...
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October 02, 2012
Ecology Ph.D. student Karen Sullam’s got a thing for the underdog—particularly when it comes to the ichthyologic sort. “It’s kind of funny because I started out studying sea turtles—they’re very big and charismatic—but I find myself drawn now to really, really small organisms and fish, which aren’t ...
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September 21, 2012
Drexel University was awarded LEED® Gold certification for the University’s Constantine N. Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, which includes the first biowall at an academic institution in the country....
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September 21, 2012
The College of Arts and Sciences’ five-story biowall, housed in the Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, continues to garner praise and attention, this time at the 2012 Plantscape Industry Expo in Las Vegas. On August 16th, Parker Urban Greenscapes, which completed the biowall’s installation last...
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August 21, 2012
Three leading scientists involved in the conservation of giant pandas at the Giant Panda Breeding Research Base in Chengdu, China will present a mini-symposium, “Biology and Conservation of the Giant Panda,” at Drexel University on August 22....
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August 10, 2012
DrexelNow pulled Dr. Ken Lacovara, paleontologist and associate professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, from his work in a marl pit in Gloucester County, NJ, to find out what he’s currently reading. He just finished The Map That Changed the World by Simon Wi...
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July 30, 2012
When the longest cells in the body are injured at their farthest reaches, coordinating the cells’ repair is no easy task. This is in part because these peripheral nerve cells can be extremely long – up to one meter in adult humans – which is a lot of distance for a molecular distre...
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July 24, 2012
The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce that Dr. Aleister Saunders, Associate Head and Associate Professor of Biology, has been named Dr. James Herbert's successor as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the College of Arts and Sciences, effective September 1, 2012....
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May 31, 2012
Congratulations to a number of our graduate students for their recognition at the Graduate Student Awards Ceremony...
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May 30, 2012
Tune in to NatGeo Wild next Sunday at 10PM to watch ant aficionado Sean O’Donnell scour the Ecuadorian rainforest in search of the mighty army ant! O’Donnell will be featured on an episode of “Animal Superpowers: Extreme Killers,” a new National Geographic series that explores the amazing and seemin...
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May 30, 2012
A military combat training base may seem like an unlikely venue for environmental research, but that’s precisely where Drexel biologist Dr. Walter Bien has set up shop. Beyond the runways, control towers and air-to-ground weaponry of the Warren Grove Gunnery Range in Burlington County, NJ, there ar...
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May 29, 2012
Drexel biologists Dr. Gail Hearn and Dr. Shaya Honarvar, along with a team of nine other researchers, have been studying a rare and endangered monkey whose DNA could provide insight into the effects of climate change on rainforest-adapted species. The Mandrillus leucophaeus, or drill monkey, is a la...
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May 24, 2012
Biology Graduate Student Association (BGSA) will receive Outstanding Community Service Award on Graduate Student Day (May 30th, 2012) for exceptional service and care given back to community....
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April 29, 2012
The Annual Biology Retreat for 2012, organized by BGSA, was held from 28th to 29th of April, in the Lighthouse Center in Waretown, New Jersey, the Department of Biology marine field station....
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April 24, 2012
Biology sophomore Kyla LaFond was named the winner of the 7th Annual “Pay It Forward” Scholarship from CURE Auto Insurance and 94.5 PST. The $15,000 award is given to a young adult who has “performed unselfish acts, compassionate works or community action.”
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April 20, 2012
Biology Ph.D. candidate Anna Vorobyeva appeared on CBS local news on April 18, 2012 in a segment promoting the Philadelphia Science Festival
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April 19, 2012
Congratulations to Biology's Drexel Research Day Awardees
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April 03, 2012
Congratulations to all Biology's CoAS Research Day Winners
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April 02, 2012
Elliott Chiu (BS/MS in Biology/Environmental Science, ’13) received the Udall Scholarship a prestigious and highly-competitive award for students committed to careers related to the environment. Chiu is the first Drexel student to be named a Udall Scholar.
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February 08, 2012
A new study by food safety researchers at Drexel University demonstrates that plasma can be an effective method for killing pathogens on uncooked poultry.
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January 16, 2012
Science met art when Dr. Walter Bien, research professor in the Department of Biology, participated in the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s Winter Festival celebration of the role of fire in human life and myth.
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January 10, 2012
In the humid Ecuadorian night, after a long day of filming, Dr. Sean O’Donnell treks back into the Tiputini rainforest alone. The thick canopy blocks the moonlight, replacing the lush greens of day with the deep black dark. Sean sweeps the narrow beam of his headlamp in search of army ants (h...
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October 03, 2011
As you’ve surely heard—or seen—the College of Arts and Sciences’ new Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building has officially opened at the corner of 33rd and Chestnut Streets.
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June 18, 2011
Dr. Jacob Russell, assistant professor of Biology, CoAS, recently traveled to the Evolution meetings in Norman, OK, where he gave a talk entitled "Microbial Menageries of Ants"
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June 07, 2011
Dr. Jacob Russell, assistant professor of Biology, CoAS, recently published a review article/meta-analysis on Wolbachia of ants.
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June 01, 2011
Dr. Elias Spiliotis, received The Antelo Devereux Award for Young Faculty award!
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June 01, 2011
Dr. Shivanthi Anandan, received The Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Teaching Excellence award
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May 12, 2011
Congratulations to Victoria Egerton for receiving the 2011 TA Excellence Award!
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May 12, 2011
Congratulations to Kevin Smith for receiving a Highly Commended Citation!
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April 07, 2011
Congratulations to Steven Pearson on winning 2nd place in the Graduate Science category for Research Day
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April 07, 2011
Congratulations to Brian Leung on winning 2nd place in the Undergraduate Science category for Research Day
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February 18, 2011
The Biology Department's Graduate Student Association sponsored a trip to Philadelphia's Mutter Museum on Friday February 18th
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February 15, 2011
Steven Pearson, a PhD candidate with advisor Dr. Harold Avery, won First Place for "Outstanding Student Poster Award".
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November 01, 2010
Shuyang Chen, doctoral candidate with advisor Dr. Nianli Sang, has his review article accepted for publication in Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology.
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October 29, 2010
Sara Ansaloni, doctoral candidate with advisor Dr. Aleister Saunders, CoAS, is the recipient of a Max Planck Institute Research Network on Aging Post-doctoral Fellowship.
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June 10, 2010
Paul Ullman, 1st yr graduate student under Dr. Lacovara, has received more publicity due to the incredibly competitive and prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awarded him earlier this year. The grant will fund his graduate research here in the Department of Biology....
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June 09, 2010
Dr. Hal Avery and Dr. James Spotila were recently mentioned in the Daily News Tribune, MetroWest Daily News and Daily News Transcript about their studying the ecology of diamondback terrapins....
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June 08, 2010
Dr. Daniel Marenda published his work, "Map Kinase phosphorylation is dispensable for cell division, but required for cell growth in Drosophila." in the July 2010 issue of the Journal Fly....
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June 06, 2010
Dr. Daniel Marenda was recently awarded a R21 grant for $412,500 from the NIH to study CHARGE Syndrome in a Drosophila model....
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June 03, 2010
Turtle conservation work in New Jersey by Dr. Bien, Dr. Avery, and Dr. Spotila has recently been featured in a number of small documentaries about the project....
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June 01, 2010
Eugenia Zandona, graduate student under Dr. Susan Kilham, won 1st prize in the Bio and Biomedical Section of Drexel's 2010 Research Day for her poster, The Role of Diet and Resource Availability in the Life History Evolution of Trinidadian Guppies (Poecilia Reticulata)....
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