Posted on April 11, 2017
Gordon Biology Professor Receives Fulbright Scholarship
Professor of Biology Greg Keller was recently awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for the Arctic Initiative, where he will focus on the habitat use, breeding behavior and parasite load of birds in woodland patches.
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Posted on February 15, 2017
Sabbatical Shalom
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Posted on November 2, 2016
Drone Takes Biology Research to New Heights
“People have very specific things they think when they hear the word ‘drone,’ given its use in the military and other applications,” Dr. Greg Keller says. “But this is a quadcopter...allows me to see things that I couldn’t see otherwise.”
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Posted on October 11, 2016
Margot Lee ’15: College Student One Day, Biotech Professional the Next
Three days after graduating from Gordon, Margot Lee ’15 began her biotechnology career in the Boston office of a multinational healthcare company. She’s now one of the youngest research associates at Siemens Healthcare.
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Posted on September 16, 2016
Dorothy Boorse in Christianity Today Publication: The “Humongous Fungus”
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Posted on September 12, 2016
The Biologist and the Beekeeper
For years, Dr. Craig Story (biology) listened to requests from students interested in having a bee hive to study apiculture, or beekeeping. Now for the first time, Gordon has its own hive and a new student club, the Gordon College Beekeeping Association (GCBA).
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Posted on September 1, 2016
Seeing Cleveland through an Intern's Eyes
"Before heading into my second year at Gordon, I wanted to get a good look into the medical world (specifically the hospital environment) to confirm that studying biology was, in fact, the right thing for me."
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Posted on August 30, 2016
Biology Major Researches Kidney Transplants at Duke University Lab
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Posted on August 19, 2016
Surveying Streams and Wrangling Fish with the U.S. Forest Service
When Josh McLaughlin ’17 found himself face down in snorkel gear and a dry suit, plucking mussels from the bed of the John Day River in Oregon, he wasn’t simply taking a mud bath.
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Posted on July 25, 2016
Investigating Inflammation at Beth Israel
This summer, several student-faculty teams are tackling research projects in the arts and sciences—from asthma to accounting audits, bilingualism and women in leadership.
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Posted on June 23, 2016
Karina Scavo ’13: Continuing Creation Care
Karina Scavo ’13 was granted a prestigious National Science Foundation graduate student fellowship and, in her second year as a Ph.D. student at Boston University, is studying coral reef conservation and restoration in mangrove environments.
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Posted on June 9, 2016
Service-Learning in Our Backyard
The more than 400 acres of woods and wetlands at the back of the Gordon campus, and in the adjacent Chebacco Woods, provide a habitat for rare organisms—and an alternative classroom for students.
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