Stop and think a moment about seahorse tails. Try to visualize one in your mind. Seahorse tails are prehensile, of course, and it’s easy to imagine a seahorse hanging on to whatever vegetation is handy But if you’ve ever looked closely at one, you may have noted that that the plates that form the seahorse tail are square…
Thirteen Biology majors (count ’em!) graduated with Honors on May 18, 2015. In addition to maintaining a record of academic excellence, each Honors student is required to complete an original piece of research, write a thesis, and defend that thesis before a faculty committee. The titles of these theses indicate the broad range of our majors’ interests….
From the 2015 Commencement Ceremony Program: Wake Forest University honors Ronald V. Dimock, Jr., Ph.D., for forty-five years of distinguished service, including as the Thurman D. Kitchin Professor of Biology; for his deep knowledge of biology and natural history that inspired many generations of Wake Forest students; for his award-winning teaching and mentoring of students; for…
The 112th annual meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Science took place on March 27-28, 2015, at Wake Forest Biotech Place in downtown Winston-Salem. Participation in North Carolina Academy of Science events is a long-standing tradition in the Wake Forest Department of Biology. This year no fewer than four of our students won awards…
Dining Dilemmas is the name Professors Pat Lord (Biology) and Ana Iltis (Philosophy) give to a collaboration between Pre-Health Advising and the WFU Center for Bioethics, Health, and Society. Once a semester, undergraduates join with other students and faculty to discuss thorny issues related to medical ethics over dinner. The welcoming environment created by Professors…
Three students presented talks on research conducted at Wake Forest University Department of Biology at the 11th annual meeting of the Southern Appalachian Honeybee Research Consortium (SAHRC) held on Saturday, March 21, 2014 at the Fralin Life Science Institute at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. The students are all participants in research in the laboratory of…
The Delta of North Carolina Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has announced its 2015 list of seniors and juniors nominated for membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the American honorary academic society founded in 1776. Many biology majors are on the list. All deserve your warmest congratulations. Note that membership by Phi Beta Kappa is by…
Did you ever take a quiz under water? Wearing a snorkel? The undergraduates enrolled in the Spring 2015 version of BIO 311/312, Ecology and Conservation Biology of Coral Reefs spent their spring break working with faculty at Lighthouse Reef Atoll in Belize, but before they left Biology graduate teaching assistant Benjamin Perlman put the students through…
Biology graduate alumnus Keith Reinhardt (Ph.D., 2009), now Assistant Professor in Physiological Plant Ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University, is currently receiving media attention for his work on light levels in Appalachian cloud forests. Reinhardt and his collaborators conduct their studies by placing light sensors on fir trees in forests in Virginia…
Biology graduate alumnus Dr. Jesse Barber (Ph.D., 2007; now Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University) and colleagues have found that the twirling tips of the luna moth’s tails attract strikes from predatory bats. The joke is on the bat as the tip of the tail is expendable. The bat gets a…
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