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Cocaine Binding Sites PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 01 December 2005
ImageDr. Oné Pagan has received a CASSDA grant for Fall 2005 in support of his project entitled: “Characterization of the cocaine binding sites in membranes derived from the flatworm Planaria”.
 
Red Oak Ecology PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 01 December 2005
Dr. Greg Turner presented a poster entitled “Effects of nitrogen on ectomycorrhizal abundance and diversity from red oak seedlings from contrasting soils” at the 90th Annual Ecological Society of America (ESA)—9th International Congress of Ecology (INTECOL) Meeting in Montreal, Canada, in August.
 
Whale Hydrodynamics PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 01 December 2005
ImageDr. Frank Fish presented a seminar, Morphological innovation for hydrodynamic flow control in cetaceans, at the Harvard University Concord Field Station.
 
Energetics of Swimming PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 04 October 2005
Dr. Frank Fish presented an invited talk titled “Energetics of swimming by the ferret: Consequences of forelimb paddling” at the Memorial Symposium for Russ Baudinette held at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
 
Bioinspiration and Biomimetics PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 04 October 2005
Dr. Frank Fish was appointed to the editorial board of the electronic journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.
 
New BioFaculty: Fall 2005 PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 12 September 2005
ImageThe Department of Biology would like to welcome its newest Faculty member, Dr. Oné R. Pagán. Dr. Pagán received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Cornell University and has taught at the University of Puerto Rico, the Universidad Metropolitana (P.R.), and the Universidad Central de Caribe Medical School (P.R.). He is a pharmacologist with a particular interest in neuro-active natural products. He has published several papers on his research concerning the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and holds two patents.
 
New NSF funding for Physiology PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 22 August 2005
NSFGiovanni Casotti, Maureen Knabb, Judith Greenamyer (Department of Biology) and Loretta Rieser-Danner (Department of Psychology) were recently awarded an NSF CCLI grant titled ‘Inquiry-based physiology curriculum integration at West Chester University of Pennsylvania’.  $112,049.  The grant aims to introduce computer equipment into three physiology courses thus enabling inquiry-based student learning.
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New Public Speaking (Com) Requirements PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 18 July 2005
Effective Fall 2006, there is a change to the Public Speaking (COM) general education requirement.

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Testing Morphological Design PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 14 July 2005
Dr. Frank Fish, biology, published the article "An Egg-ceptionally Egg-celent Egg-periment: Testing the influence of morphological design" in the SICB Digital Library.
 
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