Scholar Prepares for Graduate School

Brittney Dodge views birds different than most. As an undergraduate she spent many hours in the research lab studying bird DNA. Dodge, who graduated in December with a biology-physiology degree, is now looking to the future. Read More.

 

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NMU students sweep top honors

NMU alum, Brittney Dodge, receives the award for the Best Student Poster from Jonathan Lutz, the Executive Director of Michigan Audubon Society, at the Michigan Bird Conservation Initiative Workshop. Awards this year were given in honor of the late Dr. Bill Robinson, long-time NMU Biology professor. Read more

Ben Ayotte

Graduate student recognized as top NIH intern

Last summer, Ben Ayotte, an NMU biology graduate student, was recognized as one of the top National Institutes of Health interns and is returning to intern at the Clinical Center this summer. Learn more about his internship.

Brough and Jacques

2012 Student Research Recognized

The picture to the left is Donielle Brough and Abigail Jacques' poster: Substrate Preference of Rhinchthys cataractae in the absence of High Velocity Water. More award-winning student biology research

 

Do you have an interest in fish?

Get involved with the Aquatic Biological Society of Northern Michigan University.

   

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Student Research Funding
Are you interested in conducting research in the Biology Department with your faculty mentor?  There are several ways to obtain funding for your project!  Follow this link for more information...

 

Student Summer Research at the Duke Lemur Center

Ricki Oldenkamp, a senior biology major and psychology minor from Newaygo, learned through last summer's internship that the only way to experience what you want is to ask for it. If she hadn't asked to study with Brian Hare, a leading professor for evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, she never would have gotten the opportunity to study at the Duke Lemurs Center. 

See the whole story here.

 

Welcome new professor

We are very pleased to welcome our new microbiologist, Dr. Josh Sharp, to the department.  Dr. Sharp specializes in small microbial RNAs, especially in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.  Dr. Sharp originally hails from Michigan and is excited to be back home and joining NMU. Please say hello to him if you see him in the halls!

 

   

 

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