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Biological Sciences

  

March 19th Science Forum with Katrine Whiteson, PhD: “Metabolites, Germs and People”

March 12, 2014 by | Events

Join us Wednesday, March 19th at noon in Arygros Forum, room 119A . Katrine Whiteson, PhD, will present “Metabolites, Germs and People: Human-associated Microbial Communities in Health and Disease”. Dr. Whiteson studies how individual and persistent human-associated microbial and viral communities affect health. The talk will address how infection with a bacterial pathogen, vaccination, immune

Music is medicine; one University Singer gets a dose of two passions

January 28, 2014 by Ian Lipton '16 | News

From Biology majors to football players, the University Singers is a group just as diverse as the student body at Chapman. For Tyler Johnson ‘17, his dream of medical school can be realized while continuing his career in music. Tyler is a freshman Biology major and Music minor from Maple Valley, Washington. He has been

The Butterflies of Iguazú Falls Come to Chapman February 7, 2014

January 7, 2014 by | Events

In 1983, Bill Cooper, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Irvine, first encountered- and was mesmerized by- the butterflies of Iguazú Falls. Since then, he has taken over 15,000 pictures and videos of these butterflies, photographically preserving them for future generations. This stunning show will be on display February 7, 2014 through March 2014

Biology Undergrads to Present at International Computational Biology Conference

December 12, 2013 by | News

Chapman University seniors, Maheen Kibriya and Shehzein Khan, are presenting at the 11th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference in Colorado – a conference of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) which is the largest international organization in computational biology. Integrating Biology and Computer Programming What makes this presentation unique – aside from the fact

Advising Sessions for Biology Students

October 28, 2013 by | Events

Biological Science faculty and the Academic Advising Center are teaming up to host a series of advising sessions for biology majors. On October 28 from 4:00 to 5:00pm in the Lyon Conference Center, Argyros Forum 209C, advisers will meet with biology majors, particularly first year students, who need help with their 4-year plan and registration

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biology students hand-selected for medical technology internships

September 26, 2013 by | News

Fall semester is in full swing, and while the weather may be cooling down, several outstanding students are just starting to heat things up. Earlier this semester, juniors and seniors in the Biochem, Molecular Biology, and Biology programs interviewed with Santa Ana-based medical technology company, Medtronic. After the interviews, six were selected to participate in

Dr. Wright shares research on limpets in the Academic Minute

March 5, 2013 by | News

Dr. Wright’s research on territorial limpets is featured in The Academic Minute. In case you missed it last week, Dr. Wright, professor of Biology, was featured on The Academic Minute.  In the quick audio clip, he describes how limpets can get very territorial.  Dr. Wright and his students study the behavior of these small sea

Prof. Walter Piper Interviewed on ‘The Academic Minute’

November 13, 2012 by | News

Dr. Walter Piper, professor of Biological Sciences, will be featured on The Academic Minute, a nationally syndicated educational radio program, Wednesday, November 14. Dr. Piper will be speaking about his studies in loons and their territorial nature.  Dr. Walter Piper has studied territoriality of Common Loons since 1993 in Oneida County, Wisconsin. Click here for the podcast of

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