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Drs. Brown and Richter Receive EPA Grant
Doctors Stephen Richter and David Brown received a grant for $383,000 from the Kentucky Division of Water and the Environmental Protection Agency to develop a rapid Wetland Assessment Method for Keread...
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Study in Costa Rica, Ecuador, and the Galapgos with Jones and Frisbie!
Drs. Ron Jones and Malcolm Frisbie are teaching courses in Costa Rica, Ecuador, and the Galapagos this spring and summer! These are great opportunities to explore the world of biology beyond Kentucky...
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Lindsay Conley New MS Graduate
Lindsay Conley successfully defended her MS thesis in November. Her thesis work included both mist net and AnaBat surveys of the bats at Lilley Cornett Woods, EKU's Appalachian Ecological Research Area...
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Schyler Nunziata New MS Graduate
Schyler Nunziata successfully defended her MS thesis in November. Her thesis work focused on conservation and population genetics of crawfish frogs at the northeastern extent of its distribution....
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Department Senior Receives Summer Research Grant.
Lorrie B. Sims, a senior in the Department of Biological Sciences, has been awarded a $4,000 Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship from the American Physiological Society. She will conduct research...
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Two department grads are birds of a feather in Massachusetts
Birds of a feather? Yes, but from different generations.read more
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Aquatic Biology Student Wins EKU's Outstanding Senior Award
Avery Scherer won EKU's top senior prize, as announced by EKU's President, Doug Whitlock, at graduation in May. Avery's Academic Advisor, Dr. Sherry Harrel, laughs when she says Avery would call...
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Taylor Fork Ecological Area, Our Outdoor Classroom On the Richmond Campus,...
During the first week of classes, our Taylor Fork Ecological Area had an important visitor. For the first time since she graduated from our Wildlife Management program 2 years ago, Emily Gilbreath made...
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EKU Herbarium Expansion
The EKU Herbarium recently has expanded to include new facilities in Memorial Science 161 and 162. These facilities include two offices, a room for initial preparation of herbarium specimens...
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Madeline Ruhl, EKU Wildlife Management Senior, wins Best Student Poster Award
Madeline Ruhl presented a progress report on a portion of her undergraduate research at the annual meeting of the Kentucky Chapter of The Wildlife Society on February 21 and 22, and took home the...
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EKU BIOS Students Mentor Middle and High School Students at Girls in STEM...
On June 7, Dr. Rebekah Waikel and her lab of BIOS undergraduate and graduate students took part in the Girls in STEM Conference held at EKU's New Science Building.read more
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Are you looking for a FRESH START in BIO 171?
Do you need a "Fresh Start" in BIO 171: Human Anatomy? Then our Fresh Start Program may be for you. read more
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Dr. Ron Jones has a new book, "Woody Plants of Kentucky and Tennessee, the...
Our own Dr. Ron Jones has a new book! Published in October, 2013 by the University Press of Kentucky, the book treats 457 species, and provides color photographs of 90% of the species. The color...
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The Making of EKU's Web Page Banner Photo: A Day at the Cincinnati Zoo with...
You may have noticed that over the last year or so the EKU main web page has featured a student or two and their undergraduate major on the "banner" photo. Bob Frederick Bob.Frederick@eku.edu...
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EKU Plays Key Role in NSF-Funded Initiative to Digitize Biodiversity Hotspot
Eastern Kentucky University is playing a key role in a National Science Foundation-funded effort to digitize collections that chronicle a “global hotspot of plant diversity in the southeastern United...
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Summer 2015 field courses
This summer (2015), the Department of Biological Sciences will be offering three field-based courses primarily out of Maywoods Environmental and Educational Laboratory. Students will be allowed to...
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Student winners in research presentations at the Kentucky Academy of Sciences...
Four students in the Department of Biological Sciences won awards at this year’s annual meeting of the Kentucky Academy of Sciences. There were separate awards for graduate and undergraduate students...
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Prescribed fire training in action
Students from the EKU Wildlife Management program recently completed training to work on prescribed fires, and are now volunteering across the state to gain valuable field experience.read more
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Congratulations to several graduate students for research funding
Congratulations to John Bourne, Kari Dupler, and Audrey McTaggart, who were recently awarded grants to support their Master’s thesis research focused on amphibians in streams and wetlands. John...
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Outstanding students recieve awards at BIOS Honors Day
Several high-achieving students were recently honored with the following awards:read more
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