Biology

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.

Elon University recognizes the 10 staff members who are retiring after years of dedicated service to the campus community.

Carter Stoke '25 and Charlotte Dagli '25 are the recipients of the prestigious 2024 Undergraduate Research Award from North Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities.

Feintuch and her mentor, Professor of Psychology Amy Overman, are using eye tracking technology to study memory difference among people with autistic traits.

The article shares findings from empirical research on insect communication that was conducted at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute at Barro Colorado Island in Panama. The work was done by collaborators from Dartmouth College, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Xuzhou Medical University, Cornell University, and Elon University, and the article appears in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology.