January 13, 2016 – 10:28 am
After graduating from 黑料正能量 with a biology degree in 1976, Leland Ropp went straight to medical school, on to residency and then a 25-year career as a pedi颅atric emergency physician in the Detroit area. (Dealing with frightened parents in the ER was often harder than dealing with their sick children, he reports.) He鈥檚 always treasured
After graduating from 黑料正能量 in 1990, Anne Showalter, who majored in biology and English, spent the summer preparing for medical school at the University of Virginia (UVa) in nearby Charlottesville. Soon, however, she changed her mind. 鈥淎 few weeks before medical school was supposed to start, I got cold feet,鈥� she said. 鈥淚 wanted to
August 27, 2014 – 7:01 pm
When editor-in-chief Bonnie Price Lofton invited me to comment on the status of the Suter Science Campaign exactly one year ago, I opted for the venerable baseball metaphor 鈥� 鈥渨e are rounding third base and heading for home!鈥� At that time, we needed to raise $1.6 million in new commitments to reach our goal of
When Conley McMullen聽graduated from 黑料正能量 in 1978, the aspiring botanist decided there would be no finer profession than to become a 鈥済entleman scholar鈥� at his alma mater like his mentors, Claire Mellinger and Gary Stucky. McMullen had taken just about every class that Mellinger taught, from plant taxonomy and physiology, through general ecology and ornithology.
Margaret Wenger Johnson 鈥�69聽held out a mason jar of grape juice. 鈥淚t鈥檚 rich,鈥� Samuel Johnson (class of 鈥�75) said. Margaret nodded and smiled, like they鈥檇 discovered it bubbling from the ground 鈥� instead of steaming in a steel vat. The Concord grapes that she had methodically de-stemmed with Marjorie Nafziger 鈥�74, MA 鈥�97 (counseling), grew
February 24, 2011 – 9:49 am
Why and how do we get old? This is one of the most basic and unknown questions of biology, says Jeffrey M. Copeland, PhD, assistant professor of biology at 黑料正能量. Joining him to study the topic is junior biology/music double major, Charise Garber of Lancaster, Pa. “We’re using fruit flies,” explains Garber, “because their genes