After 19 years of service, Science and Mathematics' Librarian, Mary Lou Baker Jones is retiring. She has presented posters or panels at local, state, national and international conferences and co-authored articles on teaching chemical literature and on the challenges of filling academic science librarian positions. She was instrumental in expanding the library’s involvement with the Exploring STEMM program (among her many other efforts). Over the years she has team-taught a Chemistry course...
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It only takes a minute of conversing with Erin Paquette, Wright State University Biological Sciences student, before realizing that she knows a lot about animals and loves teaching others about them. "I like telling people about nature and all the cool things there are in the outdoors,” she explains in a recent . “My favorite animal is the Giant Ground Sloth. I just want to clone one and name it Timothy."
Erin Paquette graduated from the Dayton Regional STEM...
Senior biological sciences student, Matthew Almazan, won a presentation award at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS). He was among the winners for Best Poster for Developmental Biology with his poster on the role of planarian auricles in chemotaxis. During the past year he worked in Dr. Labib Rouhana's lab studying post-trascriptional regulation in planarian flatworms. Matthew is very involve in campus life serving as the College of Science and...
Safia Janjua, a first-year Environmental Sciences PhD student, was awarded $20,000 from the Panthera Sabin Snow Leopard Grant Program for her proposal "Genetic insight of last surviving snow leopard population of Pakistan employing next generation sequencing for its improved conservation and management.” Because snow leopards are endangered, secretive, and cryptic, they are very difficult to study in the wild. Safia’s award will enable her to design and optimize genetic probes for...
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