Biology News

Lycoming's Clean Water Institute receives $20,000 grant

Lycoming College's Clean Water Institute (CWI) has received a $20,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) for work completed as a part of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s (PFBC) Unassessed Waters Initiative.

Biology research grant awarded to Lycoming student

Lycoming College senior biology major Ashley Gimbel was awarded a $400 grant from the Beta Beta Beta (TriBeta) Biology Honor Society to support her cell and molecular biology research methods project.

Lycoming students present research at University of Maryland symposium

Six Lycoming College students recently presented their research at the University of Maryland Baltimore County Undergraduate Research Symposium. They were accompanied by Charles Mahler, Ph.D., chemistry professor, and Jeff Newman, Ph.D., professor and chair of the biology department.

Explore Charter School students visit Lycoming

Students from the Explore Charter School in Brooklyn, N.Y., explored the human brain at Lycoming College Friday, Nov. 1. Rebecca Gilbertson, Ph.D., Lycoming assistant professor of psychology, Mary Morrison, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, and their students led two lively interactive laboratory sessions. The Explore students learned about the functions of different parts of the brain, constructed paper brain caps and handled and examined two real human brains.

Biology professor receives $1,000 paleontology grant

Lycoming College assistant professor of biology, David Broussard, Ph.D., received a $1,000 grant from the Delaware Valley Paleontological Society to support his efforts at Red Hill, a 360 million-year-old fossil site in Clinton County, as well as his work at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. With the grant, Broussard hopes to gain a better understanding of the paleoecology of Red Hill by quantifying variation in species diversity as well as size of the fossil vertebrates.

Lycoming College student Lauren Robertson, a senior biology major from Hanover, recently won a Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience travel award to present her work at the national Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, Calif., in October. The $750 award covers travel and meeting expenses.

New graduate publishes book about Union County lumber company

Jonathan Bastian, a recent graduate of Lycoming College, has published his first book, “Lumbering: A Way of Life at Pardee,” which is based on a lumbering empire in Central Pennsylvania during the 19th century.

Students attend summer environmental workshop in Maine

Three Lycoming College biology students interning with the Clean Water Institute this summer were selected by the Susquehanna River Heartland Coalition for Environmental Studies to participate in a week-long international workshop in Acadia National Park, Maine.

Lycoming College biology major Ashlynn Beacker, a senior from Ulysses, is the recipient of a $1,000 scholarship from the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts Inc.

Clean Water Institute supports summer research

Thirteen students are spending their summers as interns with the Lycoming College Clean Water Institute. Several projects are being conducted under the direction of CWI directors Mel Zimmerman, Ph.D., professor of biology, and Peter Petokas, Ph.D., CWI research associate.

Students attend neuroscience conference

Members of the Lycoming College biology and psychology departments presented their research at the joint 2013 Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges-Lehigh Valley Society for Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Conference for Psychology, Neuroscience and Philosophy of Mind, held April 20 at Muhlenberg College.

Lycoming presents High School Teacher of Excellence Award

The inaugural Lycoming College High School Teacher of Excellence Award was presented during the College’s 165th commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 5. The recipient was Jill Dean of Central High School in Martinsburg, Pa., who teaches anatomy, biology and chemistry. She was nominated by Jordan Krebs, who earned a biology degree from Lycoming.

Students get a taste of entomophagy

Lycoming College students in professor Mel Zimmerman’s Invertebrate Zoology class recently were in a class that was infested with insects – the edible kind, that is.

Lycoming College biology students and faculty members recently attended the 89^th annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science held at the University of Pittsburgh-Bradford.

Lycoming College will introduce a new interdisciplinary minor in neuroscience beginning in fall 2013.

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