The first phase of a National Science Foundation-funded renovation of Weyandt Hall research facilities has begun.

The Department of Biology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) invites applications for a full-time, permanent faculty position. We seek a broadly-trained individual with a record of interdisciplinary achievement to begin August 2012.

Dr. Donghun Shin of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine gave a seminar to the Department of Biology in which he described his efforts to understand liver regeneration.

Visiting speaker Dr. Nancyn Trun gave the Department of Biology an overview of her methods to integrate service-based learning into undergraduate biology classroom exercises.

At the 2011 Pennsylvania Association of Councils of Trustees annual conference, Vida Irani, IUP Department of Biology, presented immunological research conducted collaboratively with two of her students.

Donald Miller, a senior Biology pre-med major, won two awards for research proposals in physiology and neuroscience.

Students in Dr. Tim Nuttle’s Botany class (BIOL 210) got their hands dirty helping set up an experiment to study the effectiveness of different plant mixtures in performing green roof functions like storm water retention and heat load reduction.