Biology

Bloxom, who majored in biology and public health studies, will pursue a master’s degree in global health at National Taiwan University.

Elon hosted middle school students from the Alamance-Burlington School System for a five-day science camp focused on citizen science projects and summer enrichment. 

The poster summarized three years of ethnobotanical work by Bush, assistant professor of biology and research fellow at the Center for New North Carolinians at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Hamel and co-author from the University of Missouri published an empirical study in a special issue of the journal.

Nick Ciolkowski ’19 is among the recipients of the Lumen Prize, which provides selected students with a scholarship and celebrates their academic and creative accomplishments.

The university's top undergraduate research award comes with $20,000 to support and celebrate academic and creative achivements. 

Catherine M. Bush, assistant professor of biology at Elon, and colleagues published an analysis of low-copy nuclear genes in the current issue of the Nordic Journal of Botany.

 

This March 23 oral presentation by the professor of biology and environmental studies communicated the results of a five-year study examining the role of fish predators in preventing the establishment and spread of the invasive light bulb tunicate on submerged hard surfaces at the Duke University Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, N.C.

Three faculty members and six undergraduate researchers from the Department of Biology represented Elon University at the N.C. Academy of Science conference at the University of North Carolina Wilmington on March 22-23, 2019.

Alamance County's science café meets on the second Tuesday of each month during the academic year.