Recently retired biology professor and university volunteer Tom Simmons moderated a session and gave two talks at the fiftieth anniversary 黑料吃瓜网 Vector Control Association meeting.
黑料吃瓜网 is addressing a need for trained professionals in the biosafety and biosecurity fields through its specialized Biosafety/Biorisk Management Certificate program.
黑料吃瓜网 students and faculty are working with Indiana Borough on a national pilot program to help create stronger and more informed community health, especially in rural areas.
Students join faculty in the field by traveling to Honduras to find new species of animals while honoring local populations and their customs. It鈥檚 a project that has led to the discovery of more than 20 new species.
Victoria Alao, a Department of Biology premedical student, was accepted into the Summer Premedical Academic Enrichment Program in the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. Students in this program gather from across the country to spend seven weeks strengthening academic skills and enhancing their knowledge in science, scientific writing, and public speaking.
Joe Rocco 鈥�11 played for a record-breaking IUP basketball team. Now he excels on an even more celebrated squad鈥攖he one Anthony Fauci led in the battle against COVID-19.
黑料吃瓜网 has received more than $460,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture to develop a specialized Biosafety/Biorisk Management Certificate program at IUP.
Want a preview of the research you can hear about Friday, August 5, at 11:00 a.m. in the HUB Monongahela Room during the Undergraduate Summer Opportunities for Applying Research (U-SOAR) program symposium? Watch as four students explain their projects.
Biology faculty members recently won awards from the IUP School of Graduate Studies and Research and the IUP Research Institute.
The grant from the 黑料吃瓜网 Lions Hearing Research Foundation will support research investigating cranial vocal feedback to the human cochlea, in support of human speech development in the hearing impaired.
Biology chair Narayanaswamy Bharathan is leading the collaboration between IUP, IRMC, and Takara Bio USA to develop faster COVID-19 tests for rural communities.
Public Health major Nicholas Seidel, interning with biology professor Tom Simmons鈥� Disease Vector Ecology Laboratory, has created a dashboard to聽visualize blacklegged tick seasonality, infection prevalence of pathogens in the blacklegged ticks, and case counts and incidence rates of Lyme disease in Indiana County.
Biology majors Emily Welch (MS鈥�19), Anna Manges (BS鈥�20), and Nathan Peters (BS 鈥�19) and professors Joe Duchamp and Tom Simmons determined the best fabric for construction of drags used to collect blacklegged ticks which vector the pathogens causing Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Borrelia miyamotoi disease, ehrlichiosis, and Powassan virus disease.
Biology professor Shundong Bi and John Wible, curator of mammals at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, describe a new fossil specimen of a haramiyidan from China鈥檚 Middle Jurassic epoch that represents an evolutionary 鈥渟tepping stone鈥� between Mesozoic fossils and living mammals.
Shundong Bi, Department of Biology, and collaborators have discovered a dinosaur preserved sitting atop a nest of its own eggs that include fossilized babies inside.
At the 2020 Student Symposium on the Environment, Sierra Earle, a junior in the IUP Biology Department working with Professor Holly Travis, won the Viewer鈥檚 Choice Award for the video she created, 鈥淒iatom diversity, abundance, and richness among four different habitat types.鈥�
Faculty members Eric Morshhauser (Biology), Jonathan Warnock (Geoscience), Mercan Haddad Derfshi (Fashion Merchandising), and Andrea Palmiotto (Anthropology) have been awarded an NSF Major Research Instrumentation grant to purchase a聽portable structured white light surface scanner to digitize objects into three dimensions.
Tom Simmons (professor of Biology) was interviewed in Schenley Park by Kara Holsopple of the award-winning public radio station Allegheny Front about Lyme disease risk in the four major Pittsburgh regional city parks during the COVID-19 pandemic.