BIOLOGY Department
Queens College - City University of New York
NEWS & EVENTS
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January 2010
Biology Department Colloquium Schedule
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December 2009
Queens College professor John Waldman discusses the once-polluted Hudson is a Shangri-La for sturgeon, source of the finest caviar (on CUNY-Media “Decade of Science”)
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November 2009
URM: Undergraduate Research Mentoring - NSF funded program in overseas undergraduate research mentoring in ecology, evolution and behavior.
Queens College is announcing the establishment of an NSF-funded undergraduate research program in the fields of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior. This program will promote and support the participation in research of urban undergraduate students, especially students from underrepresented minorities. Over the next four years, twelve students will participate in the research and mentoring activities funded by the program. These students will receive financial support for the two years they will be in the program ($12,000 / year) and will be prepared for graduate studies through a combination of faculty mentoring, group mentoring, and academic tutoring. Six faculty are involved in the program (Drs. Boissinot, Baker, Hickerson, and Swedell at Queens College and Prof. Tuaillon at Nassau Community College). Their research programs cover a wide-range of evolutionary and ecological questions and will provide a diverse choice of research projects that involve field work in Ethiopia, South Africa, French Polynesia, and Mexico.
More information here
Download application (deadline Dec 10)
Sites for the field component of research
Ethiopia and South Africa
French Polynesia
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October 2009
Undergraduate Awards and Scholarships - Deadline October 30th. For more details and to download an application go here
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September 2009
Award for the best student poster at the New York Marine Sciences Consortium goes to Queens College doctoral student Colin Grubel of the CUNY doctoral sub-program in Evolution, Ecology and Behavior. Title: “Evidence for Prey Spininess as a Factor Affecting Pellet Production in Double-crested Cormorants, Phalacrocorax auritus”. Download poster here
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September 2009
Five year NIH grant ($2,458,720) awarded to Biology Professor Zahra Zakeri. Title: “Establishment of a MARC Program at Queens College.” The goal of this proposal is to increase the number of under-represented students involved in biomedical sciences at Queens College by creating a MARC Program. Currently there are 12 students.
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September 2009
CUNY collaborative incentive grant awarded to Biology Professor Mike Hickerson. Title: “A North American Biodiversity Hotspot: How the Mississippi River Functions as an Engine of Species Diversification.” This grant is a collaboration with CUNY-College of Staten Island Biology Professor Frank Burbrink.
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August 2009
Biology Professor Cathy Savage-Dunn awarded Recovery Act funding to her NIH grant “Body size control genes & TGFbeta signaling in C. elegans.”
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July 2009
NSF grant awarded to Biology Professor John Dennehy. Title: “Genetic and Molecular Basis of Bacteriophage Life History Variation.”
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July 2009
The second edition of Biology Professor Uldis Roze’s book “The North American Porcupine” has been released by Cornell University Press (Ithaca).
Information Here
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