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Kathy Gallucci attended the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) Professional Development Conference in Denver, Colorado, Nov. 3-6, 2016.

The national mathematics honor society Pi Mu Epsilon hosted faculty from Winthrop University (SC) and Central Washington University (WA) for engaging colloquia on topics at the intersection of mathematics, biology, history, and physics.

Jen Hamel, assistant professor of biology, presented on how biological community interactions affect mating behavior in insects.

Jeffrey S. Coker, director of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Core Curriculum and associate professor of Biology and Evan A. Gatti, associate director Â鶹ÊÓƵ Core Curriculum and associate professor of art history, present papers at the 56th Annual Conference of the Association for General and Liberal Studies (AGLS) in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Jeffrey Coker, associate professor of biology and the director of the Core Curriculum since 2011, was honored Sept. 27 by the National Society of Experiential Education. 

Jen Hamel, assistant professor of biology, presented on the causes and consequences of hybridization between two insect species.

Peter W. Fritsch, vice president of research and director of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas Herbarium, and Catherine M. Bush, adjunct assistant professor of biology at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, published a new plant species in the current issue of the Nordic Journal of Botany.

The day-long professional development workshop for area teachers was supported by a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. 

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Biology Professors Dave Gammon and Jen Hamel were joined by biology major Dawson Nance '17, who conducts research with Hamel, in presenting research at the Animal Behavior Society 2016 conference in Columbia, Mo.

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