Biology

Vice President for Student Life Jon Dooley offers this weekly message to help students stay informed and prepare for the week ahead.

Nursing, physician assistant and anatomy faculty members, along with anatomy teaching assistants came together to offer an engaged, interdisciplinary learning opportunity to nursing students utilizing the "silent teachers" in the Anatomical Gift Program.

Students gathered on Oct. 1 to learn about and hunt for mushrooms and fungi.

According to the recently published paper, the integration of lab and lecture activities allows for a more cohesive and convenient learning experience for non-science majors seeking their lab science graduation requirement.

This fall's series of Tectonic Plates: Alamance County's Science Café events will feature scientists from the State Crime Lab at the N.C. Department of Justice. The events are the second Tuesday of each month at Burlington Beer Works in downtown Burlington.

Current Elon students offer words of wisdom to the Class of 2028, which arrives on campus on Friday, Aug. 23.

Engagement with a local environmental advocacy group is positively associated with environmental science students’ expressions of environmental value and self-efficacy, according to a recent paper published in Environmental Education Research.

Professor of Biology Dave Gammon and his former student Gabi Resh '17 were recently published in the journal Behavior for their research on mimicry.

The article shares an open access research tool for studying animal communication that was developed as part of Evora’s Elon Lumen project. The work was done by Evora, collaborators from the University of Missouri and Curtin University and Hamel. The article appears in a special issue of the journal Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata.

In this column distributed by the Elon University Writers Syndicate, Professor of Biology Dave Gammon offers suggestions to those on both sides of the political aisle about how to approach climate solutions. The column was published by the Greensboro News & Record, the Fayetteville Observer, the Times-News of Burlington and other media outlets.