Biology

In this series, Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences is shining the spotlight on distinguished members of the Class of 2022 from a wide array of disciplines.

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

Kingston presented the findings of a 25-year retrospective study examining the impact of two different pedagogical approaches on student engagement and learning in a field-based ecology course at the 118th annual meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Science on March 19.

Jen Hamel and Mark Enfield's grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund provides support for monthly science cafe's for Alamance Burlington School System middle school students and their families.

Seven Elon University faculty members published an article titled, "Undergraduate research in the global context: models and practices for high-quality mentoring" in the journal Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning.

Hamel and co-authors from the University of Florida published an empirical study on inter-and intraspecific mating in the current issue of the journal.

Biology 1064: The Science of Life course, taught by Assistant Professor of Biology Jessica Merricks, worked closely with David Vandermast, associate professor of biology, and Ashlyn Crain '22 for their Lumen Prize research regarding carbon sequestering in trees.

Vandermast, associate professor of biology, was interviewed for the report by the NBC affiliate on the fire that claimed more than 1,000 acres around the regional landmark.

In this column distributed by the Elon University Writers Syndicate, Professor of Biology Dave Gammon offers a closer look at the humble turkey. The column was published by the Burlington Times-News, The Virginian-Pilot, the Lexington Dispatch, the Asheboro Courier-Tribune, the Daily Press of Newport News, Virginia, and was distributed by Yahoo News.

Hamel and Vandermast, together with co-authors from Dartmouth College and Grinnell College, published a study in the fall 2021 issue of Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, a peer-reviewed journal of the Council of Undergraduate Research.