Biology

A pilot program in partnership with Accelerate Success supports female-identifying students in STEM majors through networking, mentorship and professional skills.

In this column distributed by the Elon University Writers Syndicate, Professor of Biology Dave Gammon writes about how to use "costly signals" to determine what's truthful. The column was published by the Greensboro News & Record, the Salisbury Post and other media outlets.

Annual awards for teaching, scholarship, mentoring and service-leadership were presented at the Aug. 15 faculty meeting for Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences.

Dave Gammon, professor in biology, and Christine Stracey, a biologist at Guilford College, recently published a peer-reviewed research article that documents for the first time vocal mimicry in female mockingbirds.

Dave Gammon and collaborators from Guilford College and Utah gave two research presentations at an international conference of the Animal Behavior Society held in San Jose, Costa Rica in July 2022.

In this column distributed by the Elon University Writers Syndicate, Professor of Biology Dave Gammon explains how the recovery of the bald eagle as a species exemplifies the resiliency of the United States as a country. The column was published in the Greensboro News & Record, The Virginian-Pilot, The Daily Press and other news outlets around North Carolina.

Local middle schoolers in the Elon Explorers summer bug camp shared their findings and experience during the week-long STEM enrichment program.

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.