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• Dr. Neeta Connally joins us this year as a new full-time, tenure-track faculty member. Formerly of the Yale School of Public Health, Dr. Connally is a specialist in ticks & Lyme Disease. Let's give her a big WestConn welcome. (posted 01-24-11)
• Dr. Dora Pinou was given the Connecticut State University System's 2010 Norton Mezvinsky Trustees Research Award. (posted 10-12-10)
• Mark Fitzgerald won the Provost's Prize for best student research poster at WestConn Research Day 2010. His poster, Microbial Metagenomic Analysis and Comparison of Candlewood Lake Sediments in Winter Drawdown and Shallow Submerged Shoreline Areas, was co-authored by graduate student Mary Alice Secola. Their project advisor was Dr. Ed Wong. (posted 05-18-10)
• The Biology Club was presented the WestConn Student Club of the Year award by the WCSU Student Government Association. Congratulations to Club president Heather Shepard and the rest of the club. (posted 05-05-10)
• Maria Ierace, Biology Class of 2010, has been accepted by the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri at Columbia. (posted 05-04-10)
• Dr. Mitch Wagener and Dr. Frank Dye were featured in the Danbury News-Times for Earth Day 2010. Dr. Wagener wrote about the threat of climate change, while Dr. Dye wrote about the need to be responsible caretakers for our planet. (posted 04-28-10)
• The following students have earned departmental awards this year. Nominees must achieve a high GPA and be recommended by faculty. The Outstanding Graduating Senior Biology Major award goes to co-recipients Ana & Maria Bortolleto. The Most Promising Underclassman award goes to Carina Nido. Congratulations to these students! (posted 04-28-10)
• Dr. Ruth Gyure and Dr. Theodora Pinou, along with teachers from Barnard Elementary School for Environmental Studies in New Haven, CT, have been awarded a grant from the Toyota Tapestry program to study the environmental impact of retrofitting floodgates on the West River. (posted 04-06-10)
• Dr. Theodora Pinou has a new article in press. Pinou, T., Drucker, M., & Studley, E. (2010). An “HOLA” approach to learning science. In R. E. Yager (Ed). Science for Resolving Issues/Problems. NSTA Press, Arlington, VA. In press. (posted 04-05-10)
• Two environmental internships are available for graduate students interested in studying pollutant loading in Lake Kenosia in western Danbury. For more details, contact Dr. Theodora Pinou immediately. Deadline for applications is March 30, 2010. (posted 03-25-10)
• Dr. Theodora Pinou is highlighted in a talk to volunteers of the Connecticut State Animal Response Team. Read the article in the Danbury News-Times here. (posted 03-02-10)
• Dr. Patrice Boily has published a paper entitled "Role of voluntary motor activity on menthol-induced hyperthermia in mice". Journal of Thermal Biology (2009) 34(8): 420-425. (posted 01-07-10)
• Dr. C. Thomas Philbrick, along with WCSU graduate Mr. Thomas C. Edson and Brazilian collaborator Dr. Claudia Bove published a taxonomic monograph in the journal Systematic Botany (see below). Their paper addresses the taxonomy and biology of plants that occur attached to rocks in river-rapids and waterfalls in central Brazil.
Philbrick, C.T., D. P. Bove & T. C. Edson. 2009. Monograph of Castelnavia (Podostemaceae). Systematic Botany 34(4):715-729. (posted 12-21-09)
• Dr. Maureen Kelly joins us this year on a full-time faculty appointment. Besides teaching, Dr. Kelly is a semiprofessional musician. Her office is located in Science Building 239. Telephone: 203-837-9038.
• Dr. Howard Russock has retired after 33 years of exemplary service to the Biology Department and the University as a whole. He will continue to teach part-time as emeritus faculty. Wish him the best of luck when you see him.
• A time-lapse video of Dictostelium life-cycle has won a runners-up award for Arjumond Khan and Benjamin Woodhouse in The Scientist magazine Video Awards: 2009. The video was created in fulfillment of a senior research project in 2008 in Dr. Frank Dye's lab (posted 08-04-09).
• Associate Professor Ruth Gyure is co-author of an article, "Co-selection of Mercury and Antibiotic Resistance in Sphagnum Core Samples Dating Back 2000 Years", published in Geomicrobiology Journal (posted 06-20-09)
• Associate Professor Pat Boily and collaborators from the University of New Orleans are co-authors of an article, "Exercise- and hypoxia-induced anaerobic metabolism and recovery: a student laboratory exercise using teleost fish", published in Advances in Physiology Education. (posted 03-04-09).
• Associate Professor Ruth Gyure has been elected, in a national election, as Chair-Elect for the Educational Branch of the American Society for Microbiology. This position will allow Dr. Gyure to guide national decisions concerning microbiology education. (posted 02-12-09)
• Associate Professor Ruth Gyure is co-author of an article, "Using Microbial Ecology to Teach Experimental Design and Sampling Methods", published in the MicrobeLibrary Curriculum Resource Library, American Society for Microbiology. (posted 02-10-09)
• Assistant Professor Theodora Pinou, and collaborators at a New Haven magnet school, have published a new article about teaching the scientific process to first graders. (posted 02-02-09)
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