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    Some of the latest news, especially about alumni and recent changes in the Biology Department, can be read in our Fall 2010 newsletter, The Leaflet.          
   

 

Laura Rokus recently volunteered in a research project at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary and helped researchers follow radio tagged hawks as they migrated south in the fall. She also got to handle some of the birds used for education at the sanctuary.

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

          
    Monica Buckley (below) recently completed her website that explains the basic morphology, identification, and preservation of mosses. To access the website, click here.

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Monica ('11) is active in the Environmental Action Club on campus and enjoyed all of her classes that got outside, like Plant Ecology, Environmental Science, Limnology, & Entomology!  Monica’s future career goal is to be an environmental educator for a nature center, herbarium, zoo, state, or national park.
The Ronald R. Rhein Environmental Study Area is dedicated to long-time faculty member and Chairman of the Biology Department in Spring 2009.
          
   
 
The Ronald R. Rhein Environmental Study Area is dedicated to long-time faculty member and Chairman of the Biology Department in Spring 2009.
          
The new $20 M Science Building and Renovation project
has been completed!

The Biology, Physical Science and
Geography Departments moved into the new 4-story wing, shown at left, in Summer 2003
and into the completely renovated original building in Spring 2004. The Biology Department is located on the second floor and has laboratories, a cold room, instrument room, seminar room, autoclave, dark room, sterile room, wet lab, marine tank room, museum, herbarium, greenhouse and eight student-faculty research laboratories.
A new $149,624 grant from the National Science Foundation, entitled "Integrated Study of Environmental Effects on Organisms"* provides new state-of-the art physiological equipment for use in several upper-level courses.
Students in Microbiology Lab use some of the new equipment to measure microbial activity (specifically, biological ozygen demand) in wastewater.
Photo of human chromosomes taken by students in Genetics Lab and the resultant karyotype, made digitally.
The NSF-funded digital imaging lab* continues to enhance the biology curriculum

The lab, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation with a match from K.U., is among the first to make digital imaging technology available to students throughout a biology curriculum, including the introductory course for freshmen.

Biology Learning Communities help incoming students get oriented each fall.
Class of 2004 Biology Learning Community meets over pizza. Left to right: Rick Vath, Melinda Morgan, Amy Fox, Chrissy Croak, Pete Acquarola, Amanda Baker, Tim Bachak, Barbara Cook, Jesse Gauer.
Michele Lee, a Biology minor, takes her dream job as Orca trainer at Sea World.
Incorporation of information technology throughout the curriculum continues.
Kim Lee Dietrich prepares a PowerPoint presentation for Advanced Genetics.
*Funding for revisions to lab curricula through the Biology Lab Adaptation and Digital Imaging Technology project (Grant DUE-9952337) and Integrated Study of Environmental Effects on Organisms (Grant DUE-0126817) at Kutztown University was provided by the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education through the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement program and by Kutztown University.