Posted on November 2, 2012 by Amanda Jenkins
The fall Biological Sciences Alumni Advisory committee met November 2nd and 3rd on campus. The group is actively engaged in supporting the Department and Dr. Richard Kuhn, the Head in its efforts to achieve excellence in educating Biology students at Purdue University. Thanks to all the members who serve, we appreciate you!
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Posted on October 24, 2012 by Amanda Jenkins
With the publication this year of the review for the Annual Reviews of Genetics (vol. 46, pp. 209-231, 2012), his fifth annual review in Annual Reviews on four different subjects, Prof. Bill Cramer may have published the widest known diversity of Annual Reviews, listed below: Cramer, W. A., and J. Whitmarsh. (1977) Photosynthetic cytochromes. [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2012 by Rebecca Fulk
Growing up in Georgia, Vanessa Hale was far from hallowed Boilermaker territory, but her grandfather, William Reynolds, made sure she knew what it meant to be a part of the Purdue family. The 1938 Engineering graduate sang the Purdue fight song to his young granddaughter. Now, some 70 years after her grandfather’s student days, Vanessa [...]
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Posted on October 2, 2012 by Amanda Jenkins
The Department of Biological Sciences honored two alums this year for the 2012 Outstanding Alumni event: Dr. Kerry Bloom (PhD ’80), Thad L. Beyle Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Dr. Stephen Parker (BS ’01) Neurosurgeon at the Spine and Brain Institute at St. Vincent’s Medical Center [...]
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Posted on September 17, 2012 by Amanda Jenkins
Understanding Free Radicals: Isolating Active Thylakoid Membranes and Purifying the Cytochrome b6f Complex for Superoxide Generation Studies Abstract All life persists in an environment that is rich in molecular oxygen. The production of oxygen free radicals, or superoxide, is a necessary consequence of the biogenesis of energy in cells. Both mitochondrial and photosynthetic electron [...]
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Posted on September 7, 2012 by Amanda Jenkins
Like so many faculty members, continuing biology lecturer David Bos started his career at Purdue by lecturing several hundred first- and second-year students per course in a large lecture hall. By the end of his first year, Bos knew he needed a more engaging way to teach. He saw how his method of instruction was [...]
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Posted on September 4, 2012 by Amanda Jenkins
Peter Hollenbeck has been fascinated with cell biology ever since he received a miniature microscope for Christmas at age 10. As a child, Hollenbeck studied pond water samples. These days, though, he tackles the mysteries of nerve cells — the longest and some of the most complex cells in the human body. As professor and [...]
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Posted on August 7, 2012 by Amanda Jenkins
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue University student’s research project related to zebrafish eye development could lead to a better understanding of vision problems that affect billions of people worldwide. Zeran Li, as an undergraduate student in biological sciences, led a research team that uncovered an enzyme’s role in the regulation of eye size in [...]
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Posted on August 3, 2012 by Amanda Jenkins
Annwesa Dasgupta and Caleb Trujillo recently received travel awards and invitations to present their doctoral research work at a biology education research conference, SABER (society for advancement of biology education research) in Minneapolis this July. Annwesa’s research has been focused on developing a valid and useful assessment to measure student’s knowledge of experimental research [...]
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Posted on July 27, 2012 by Amanda Jenkins
Bindley Bioscience Center Research Fellows and Scholars Initiative PROGRAM OVERVIEW The Bindley Research Fellows and Scholars Initiative (BRFSI) seeks to engage the campus in the development, expansion and application of new science and engineering technologies, with an emphasis on creating new life science approaches. The program is directed at faculty on the West Lafayette campus [...]
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