Ursinus Biology Happenings

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What's happening in the Biology Department and Related Programs

Summer Research Abounds

The department was alive with activity this summer as faculty and students pursued their research together. Students were funded through the Ursinus Summer Fellows Program, a departmental REU grant, and through individual faculty grants from the NSF and NIH.

UC Bio in Mexico!

The UC in Mexico Semester was a great success in Spring 2008, with sixteen Bio majors and their two profs learning culture and biology in tropical Mexico.

Congratulate Our Seniors On Acceptance to Professional and Graduate Programs

Check out the list of students and where they've been accepted in the lobby of Thomas.

Biochem Honors Students Present Research at Professional Conference

Theresa Leichner and Priya Patel, majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, traveled with their professor Dr. Rebecca Roberts to San Diego, Calif., in April to present their work at the Experimental Biology international conference. Their poster was titled “Estrogen and the environmental estrogen bisphenol A differentially regulate cathepsin activity in a mouse model for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.”

Leichner’s plans are to work as a laboratory researcher in a lab at the University of Pennsylvania after graduation, and Patel plans to attend medical school at Drexel University.

The research was funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health and Merck/AAAS.

Tropical biology courses in

Costa Rica (2009, 2011)

and Mexico (2008, 2010).

Check them out!

Snorkeling off Isla Cozumel, Mexico, March 2007