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April 2011
National Science Foundation doctoral research fellowship awarded to PhD candidate Elliot Aguilar (mentored by Biology Professor David Lahti)
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John Waldman and Paul Greenberg discuss New York City seafood and the prospects of local fish hitting your supermarket anytime soon on the Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC)
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November 2010
Queens College Biology Professor John Waldman and Paul Greenberg discuss New York City seafood and the prospects of local fish hitting your supermarket anytime soon on the Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC)
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October 2010
Shalini Singh of the Dennehy Lab was awarded First Prize for Best Poster at the 43rd Annual Metropolitan Association of College and University Biologists Conference (October 23rd, 2010). Title: “Density-dependent growth among Bacteriophage ะค8”
Download Poster Here
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October 2010
Biology Honor Society
Welcome Meeting November 10th (12:15 1:30)
Student Union 310
Information here
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September 2010
DNA Bio-coding in French Polynesia (read article in CUNY matters)
Graduate Student J.T Boehm (standing), processing specimens with Queens College undergraduate students Chris Ludvik and Francois Desinor.
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May 2010
Spring 2010 Graduates (Photos Here)
On May 30th the Queens College Biology department hosted the Annual Honors and Awards Ceremony to recognize outstanding majors (Photos here)
Lancefield Prize: Netanel Alper
Lancefield Prize: Yehoshua Laker
Darwin Prize: Simon Greenbaum
Colwin Prize: Guy Surpris
Feigelson Award: Eryn Blass
Feigelson Award: Sarah Oberlander
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February 2010
Turning the Tide: New York’s Waterfront in Transition
(A series of free public colloquia on New York’s Waterfront and Harbor) Download Flyer
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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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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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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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June 2009
Queens College President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by Adjunct Faculty awarded to Peter Novick
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July 2009
NSF grant awarded to Biology Professor John Dennehy. Title: “Population dynamics and evolution of emerging viruses”
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2009 QC-Biology Department Awards
On May 28th, 2009 the Queens College Biology Department hosted the Annual Honors and Awards Ceremony to recognize our outstanding Majors. (Photos here)
Student Awards for Biology Department 2008-2009 are:
Laura H. and Arthur L. Colwin Prize: Brian Estevez
Charles Darwin Prize: Forough Yassi
Muriel and Philip Feigelson Award: Svetlana A. Musheyev
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Lizbeth Nunez
Donald E. Lancefield Award: Alexander Pinhas
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Zahava Rubel
High Honors: Alexander Pinhas, Zahava Rubel and Forough Yassi
Spring 2009 Biology Graduates! (Photos here)
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2009 Masters of Biology Graduates (Photos here)
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April 2009
Biology Professor Nathalia Glickman-Holtzman was awarded a 3-year NIH R15 grant. Title: “Defining endocardail requirements for myocardial morphogenesis”
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April 2009
David Lahti (Ph.D. Biology, University of Michigan; Ph.D. Philosophy, Whitefield Institute Oxford) has joined the Biology Department as an assistant Professor starting Fall 2009.
David Lahti is interested in how complex traits evolve in an ecological context. Current research involves empirical studies of bird eggs and behavior, and synthetic and theoretical work on topics such as relaxed natural selection, behavioral evolution, and the evolution of human culture. He conducts field research in New York, New England, and Africa.
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April 2009
Biology Professor John Waldman was awarded two grants from the Hudson River Foundation. These are titled “Genetic Mixed-Stock Analysis of Coastal American Shad Fisheries” and “River Herring Otolith Geochemical Markers to Identify Essential Fish Habitat and Bycatch”. The first grant is headed by Waldman in collaboration with co-PI Isaac Wirgin of NYU. Waldman is co-PI on the second grant in collaboration with PI Karin Limburg of SUNY-ESF and co-PI Simon Thorrold of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
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March 2009
Three students in the Minority Access to Research Careers program (MARC program) won best presentation at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students; (l-r) Brian Estevez, mentored by Biology Professor Zahra Zakeri; Lisbeth Nenez, mentored by Biology Professor Alicia Melendez; and Jair David Zapata, mentored by Psychology Professor Susan Croll.
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February 2009 - The Biology Department’s Day of Darwin Symposium was a huge success (organized by Biology Professor John Dennehy) -
Panel discussion from left: Patricia Wittkopp, Paul Turner, Jeffrey Schwartz, and Susan Foster
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Two grants awarded to Biology Professor Alicia Meléndez - Ellison Medical Foundation Young Scholar Award in Aging research, and an NSF Research Initiation Grant
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USDA grant awarded to Biology Professor Mitchell Baker. Title: "Rotation distance and resistance management in Colorado potato beetle: Is movement a cost of resistance?"
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2008 Biology Department Award Winners
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2008 Biology Undergraduates receiving degrees
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2008 Masters of Arts in Biology Graduates
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NIH grant "Genetic Bases of Sarcopenia and Muscle Healthspan in C. elegans" awarded to Biology Professor Alicia Meléndez.
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NSF grant "Undergraduate Research Mentoring in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior " awarded to Biology Professor Stéphane Boissinot. Apply here to conduct research overseas under this new summer program.
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"BioBlitz Participants Storm Jamaica Bay", (article in Queens Chronicle). Bioblitz orchestrated by Professors Gillian Stewart and John Waldman.
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"Like Ducks and Penguins, With Nervous Stomachs". A New York Times article featuring graduate student Colin Grubel and Biology Professor John Waldman
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"Swimming with the Fishes (The Death and Life of New York’s Waterways)". A cuny radio Podcast featuring Biology Professor John Waldman. Listen Now
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Biology Department Group Photograph
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2008 Queens College President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by Adjunct Faculty awarded to Areti Tsiola
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2007 Queens College President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching was given to Biology Professor Tim Short.
Information on nine previous teaching awards given to Biology Department faculty