Undergraduate Studies
Biology Club
The Purdue Biology Club exists to foster an interest in Biology, to allow students to pursue that interest beyond the classroom, and to allow students to meet others who share that interest.
Membership
The Purdue Biology Club is open to all students, although most are biology majors. There are no age, major, or experience requirements to join the Biology Club. Many freshmen join their first semester.
Joining is simple. Near the beginning of each semester, the club holds a callout for members and interested students. Fifteen dollars, along with a completed sign-up form, is good for a year’s membership and a t-shirt, and covers most club activities. Students who miss the callout can email any of the officers or the club’s email account and make arrangements to turn in the form and money and pick up a t-shirt.
There are no specific requirements of current members. Most students pick
out the talks and activities that interest them and attend only those events.
The club offers opportunities for service such as helping at programs like
Springfest and campus cleanup.
What We Do
The club will hold four or five meetings a semester featuring either a speaker or other presentations of interest to club members. Speakers are chosen based on the interests of club members from surveys and conversations. Some recent talks have been on AIDS, cancer, and transgenic fish, with speakers representing the academic, industrial, and governmental sectors of biology. One recent highlight was a presentation from the head elephant keeper at the Indianapolis zoo.
The club also puts on a variety of special events throughout the year. Some events are biology oriented, such as the popular tour of Purdue’s cadaver lab every October or the trip to see an IMAX movie in Indianapolis. Others are geared toward entertainment and relaxation, with things like hayrides or finals week study breaks, which feature food, games, and professors available to socialize and answer last-minute questions. The club also helps the community by participating in Campus Cleanup, making cards for the elderly in a veterans’ home, and teaching children about biology during Springfest, where the club also sells petri dishes filled with jell-o and gummy worms and helps professors to run their booths.
Xi Pi Chapter of BBB Biological Honor Society at Purdue University
Faculty Advisors: Susan J. Karcher (email)
and Dennis Minchella (email)
Link
to National Headquarters
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