Biology

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.

This month, Elon students from Dave Gammon's Science Without Borders class presented museum-style science demos to approximately 100 fourth-graders from Elon Elementary School.

Associate prfessor Kathy Gallucci presented her paper, "A Chromatid Is Not a Homologue," at the National Association of Biology Teachers Annual Conference in Minneapolis, Minn., on Nov. 4, 2010.

Elon University's Center for Environmental Studies hosted a Wild Feline Husbandry and Conservation Workshop on Nov. 6, 2010.

David Vandermast, assistant professor of biology and environmental studies, and Monica Poteat' 10, published "On the scarcity of red spruce (Picea rubens) and Fraser fir (Abies fraseri) in the beech gaps of Great Smoky Mountains National Park," in the Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science.