Biology

The wide variety of information sources in the 21st century – coupled with a news media industry weakened by budget cuts – requires citizens to more closely evaluate the motives of governments and businesses that are today in a better position to push their own agendas, according to a panel of researchers who spoke Tuesday for an inaugural conference on politics and the media hosted by Elon University.

Advances in stem cell research have given medical researchers even more hope that organs such as kidneys and livers grown outside the body will in the next few years be an option to help patients awaiting transplants, according to a world-renowned researcher and surgeon who lectured March 26 at Elon University as the keynote speaker for the annual meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Science.

Biology professors Antonio Izzo and Yuko Miyamoto, and Rick Palmer, academic technology consultant with teaching and learning technologies (TLT), presented their year-and-a-half-long collaboration at the 2011 Lilly Conference on College & University Teaching in Greensboro, N.C., on February 4-6.

Michael Terribilini, assistant professor of biology, has published a co-authored article, PRIDB: a protein-RNA interface database.

The Elon University Board of Trustees voted Oct. 22 to designate a 56-acre undeveloped tract north of University Drive as the Elon University Forest, a dedicated land preserve and natural area. The action protects the largest remaining intact forest in the Town of Elon and safeguards thousands of species of plants, animals and other organisms.