News from Biology

Alumna Molly Bernhard receives 2013 Charles Barkley Health Disparities Award

2013-05-08T19:32:39Z

Molly Bernhard (Biology, C'09 ) has received the 2013 Charles Barkley Health Disparities Investigator Award and the 2013 Outstanding Masters Student award for the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health.

Evans and Keen publish St. Catherines Island hickory research

2013-05-02T17:54:45Z

Eric Keen '08 and Biology Professor Jon Evans recently published the results from an 11 year study of pignut hickory regeneration failure on St. Catherines Island, GA.

Biology senior majors present honors theses

2013-04-29T21:59:46Z

Senior Honors Theses were presented by Biology and Ecology & Biodiversity majors at this year's Scholarship Sewanee oral presentation session.

Biology Student research featured at Scholarship Sewanee

2013-04-29T22:01:41Z

Biology student research was featured in 19 posters and seven oral presentations at this year's annual Scholarship Sewanee.

Haskell’s “The Forest Unseen” named a Pulitzer Prize finalist

2013-05-08T22:03:20Z

Biology Professor David Haskell's recent book, "The Forest Unseen," was named as one of the three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in the general nonfiction category.

Eco-bio major presents deer research at meeting

2013-04-28T02:25:38Z

Meg Armistead, C'14 (Ecology and Biodiversity major), presented a talk Feb. 26 to the 36th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Deer Study Group in Greenville, SC.

Students attend SICB meeting, present research poster

2013-02-05T16:42:06Z

Freshmen Simey Emerson and Taylor Morris attended the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology January 3 – 7, 2013.

David Johnson part of research team showing impact of nutrients on coastal ecosystems

2012-10-31T14:37:07Z

David Johnson, visiting assistant professor of biology here at Sewanee, is part of a multi-disciplinary national research group that recently discovered the impact of nutrient enrichment on salt marshes.

David Haskell featured in New York Times

2012-10-24T19:12:25Z

The New York Times has a great article on Professor of Biology David Haskell who, it says, "thinks like a biologist, writes like a poet, and gives the natural world the kind of open-minded attention one expects from a Zen monk rather than a hypothesis-driven scientist."

Keri Bryan (C’12) steers Haiti project blog site

2012-10-03T16:20:15Z

A blog about the Haiti Project was started by post-baccalaureate fellow Keri Bryan (Ecology & Biodiversity C'12) under the direction of Biology Professor Deborah McGrath.

Alum Sierra Hayes (Biology C’10) joins City Year, inspiring youth

2012-10-03T16:04:33Z

Sierra Hayes, Class of 2010 Biology major, has recently joined City Year close to her home town in southeast Washington, DC, serving as a corps member on the Case Foundation Team at Simon Elementary School.

Nathan Bourne, C’11 - Post-Baccalaureate Fellow

2012-08-30T21:06:06Z

Nathan Bourne (C’11), who graduated with a degree in Environmental Studies: Ecology and Biodiversity, began a post-baccalaureate fellowship with the Sewanee Herbarium and Sewanee Environmental Institute earlier this summer.

Guide to Sewanee’s butterflies now online

2012-07-30T10:06:50Z

Eileen Schaeffer and Arden Jones’ guide to Sewanee’s butterflies is now available online.

From Australia to Belize: students study reef fish behavior

2012-07-17T14:38:06Z

Damselfishes are considered the “poodles of the sea” for their active defense of food resources within their territories against much larger predators. During this summer’s Field Study in Belize course, current students and a recent alumna were able to investigate damselfish territoriality on the Belizean coral reefs.

Students discover massive mortality in sea fans on the Belizean Barrier Reef

2012-06-19T08:39:08Z

The Common Sea Fan (Gorgonia ventalina) is undergoing an unexplained die-off along Belizean reefs. While snorkeling along the reefs in the Field Study in Belize class, it became obvious that the brown algae covering most of the sea fans was not a sign of natural coral health. Sara Smith (EcoBio, C‘14) and Sarah Delong (EcoBio, C‘13) studied this phenomenon for their class project by quantifying the algae cover of sea fans in two locations (South Water Caye and Tobacco Caye).