Current News from the Biology Department

 

May 3, 2010:

The Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society recently received the TCNJ Division of Student Affairs 2010 Student Leadership Award for the Outstanding Service Project for its annual participation in "Hands-On Science Night" at Antheil Elementary School in Ewing. 

One night each year, members of Tri-Beta assist the classroom teachers in presenting programs in all classrooms in which school children and their parents learn about critical thinking exercises in math and science.  Almost a thousand children and parents participate each year.  The director of the program has credited the TCNJ students with being single-handedly responsible for the continued success of Hands-On Science Night.  Participation in this program exemplifies the Tri-Beta goal to encourage interest in the sciences among others.

We congratulate the members of Tri Beta, and the group's adviser, Dr. Don Lovett.

 

January 11, 2010:

The annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, held last week in Seattle, Washington, was the forum for presentation of research by members of our department.

Sophomore Daniel Markowski (on right in photo), a student of Dr. Donald Lovett's, presented his research poster entitled "A Time-Course Study of Gene Expression in Gills of the Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus Transferred from to Dilute to High-Salinity Seawater."

Senior Sisi Gao also presented a poster entitled "Diel Variation in Standard Metabolic Rate: Mediation by Photoperiod Cues and Melatonin?"

Additionally, Dr. Luke Butler gave a talk entitled "Environmental and life history correlates of glucocorticoid physiology in an arid-country bird."

Kudos to all!