Biology
News & Events
Read below for information on special events, faculty-student collaborations, curriculum changes & alumni success.
Biology News
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Video: Quantify the Impact of Tamaulipan Thornscrub Restoration
Assistant Professor of Biology Jennie DeMarco and two students collaborate on a SCOPE project in South Texas.
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Southwestern’s Class of 2023 Achieves 100 Percent Medical School Acceptance
Southwestern announces a groundbreaking achievement.
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Dr. Jennie DeMarco offers an Op-Ed in The Southwestern Magazine
Dr. Jennie DeMarco, Assistant Professor of Biology and Garey Junior Chair in Environmental Science, recently authored an op-ed piece for the Spring 2023 edition of The Southwestern Magazine entitled “Fighting the Effects of Climate Change through Soil Restoration.”
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Vincente Villa Biology Students of the Year
Biology’s Students of the Year meet Dr. Vincente Villa, Emeritus Professor whom the named awards honor.
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Biology’s Dr. Pierce = SU’s 2022 Mr. Homecoming
Dr. Ben Pierce receives 2022 Mr. Homecoming Award
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Taking SU undergraduate researchers to new heights at 10,000 ft.
Any students out there looking for opportunities to escape the TX heat? Dr. DeMarco, our plant ecosystem and climate change ecologist, brought a number of research opportunities from Colorado and made them available to SU students. Check out the work by the first three students: Gabby, Lupe & Christine.
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Inverting The Gallery Concept: Biological digital diversity
Invertebrate diversity across so many types of habitats make it difficult to capture all of it in a small specimen collection. However, the provision of visual images across the internet provides an opportunity for students to curate their own collection of diversity.
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Bee-ing an invertebrate field biologist
After being constrained by covid-19 for the last few semesters, vaccine availability and our students cooperation afforded the opportunity for the 2022 Invertebrate Ecology class to get out and about in the field.
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Third Southwestern Graduate Receives 2022–2023 Fulbright Award
Emma Astad ’21 will teach English in Galicia, Spain.
