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Discover Magazine's Inkfish blog, by Elizabeth Preston, featured research by Assistant Professor Jen Hamel of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Biology Department today. 

 

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students and professors shared research findings and creative work Tuesday at the Spring Undergraduate Research Forum, a day set aside each spring for the campus community to celebrate scholarship and faculty mentoring relationships.

For each of the past five years, Associate Professor Dave Gammon has conducted an annual bird count in the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Forest, and his most recent census indicates plenty of good news for those with avian DNA.

Astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson headlined Spring Convocation on April 2, 2015, with a passionate defense of science, an analysis of what drives people to accomplish great feats, and advice to students for being lifelong learners.

Assistant Professor of Biology Jen Hamel, together with Savannah Nease and Dr. Christine Miller of the University of Florida, published a research article in the current issue of the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

The famed astrophysicist took questions from ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students on Thursday in a Whitley Auditorium program where he advised his audience not to “ever shortchange your curiosity for the promise of money” as they pursue their life passions.

Professor Mike Kingston from the biology and environmental studies departments concluded three years of executive service to the North Carolina Academy of Science at the 112th Annual Meeting at the Wake Forest Biotech Place in Winston-Salem on March 28, 2015.

The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Noyce Scholars Program is accepting applications for summer education internships from current first-year students and sophomores who are interested in STEM fields.

The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Noyce Scholars Program is accepting scholarship applications from current sophomores who are interested in becoming K-12 science or math teachers, and current first years who are interested in STEM fields.