Biology

Brant Touchette, professor of biology and environmental studies, served as a National Panelist for the College Board in Newtown, Pa.

Millions of people on April 22 celebrated Earth Day, a program started in 1970 to raise awareness of the environment and the impact of human activity on the planet. Jeffrey Coker, an associate professor of biology, shares the history of Earth Day while offering ideas to consider in the latest in a series of videos where Elon University faculty members share their research and classroom expertise.

Antonio Izzo was appointed to the Student Award Committee for the Mycological Society of America (MSA). This committee administers awards both for research-based scholarships and for poster and oral presentations at the annual meeting. The Mycological Society of America is a professional society devoted to research of fungi and fungal-like organisms. The MSA publishes the scientific journal Mycologia .

Elon Biology Club members, Neha Sampat, Steven Greenberg, Kathryn Milizio, Elise Post and Brittany White were the first Elon undergraduate Ambassadors of science to participate in DNA Day on April 15.

David Vandermast, assistant professor of Biology and Environmental Studies, chaired the Southeast Chapter of the Ecological Society of America business meeting in Huntsville, AL last Friday.

David Vandermast, assistant professor of Biology and Environmental Studies, presented his research with four Elon students at the Association of Southeastern Biologists annual meeting in Huntsville, AL last week.

Sixteen students presented posters March 29 during the Department of Biology's Spring Internship Poster session.

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.