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IUP Summer Field Biology Courses at Pymatuning Lab of Ecology

Are you looking for summer coursework or interested in gaining new experience and skills in a field-related biological science? With summer registration just around the corner, we encourage you to consider the IUP Summer Field Biology Courses at the Pymatuning Lab of Ecology!

  • 23 February 2026
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Simmons Presents at Pennsylvania Vector Control Association Meeting

Professor Emeritus of Biology Tom Simmons moderated a session and was an invited speaker at the 52nd annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Vector Control Association held in State College from October 20th to 22nd, 2025.

  • 27 October 2025
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IUP Forensic Science Major to Begin Accepting Students for Fall 2025

Indiana University of Pennsylvania will launch a new forensic sciences major for fall 2025.

  • 04 August 2025
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Simmons Presents on Blacklegged Ticks and Lyme Disease at Pennsylvania Vector Control Association Meeting

Recently retired biology professor and university volunteer Tom Simmons moderated a session and gave two talks at the fiftieth anniversary Pennsylvania Vector Control Association meeting.

  • 31 October 2024
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IUP Accepting Students and Professionals for Biosafety/Biorisk Management Certificate Program

Indiana University of Pennsylvania is addressing a need for trained professionals in the biosafety and biosecurity fields through its specialized Biosafety/Biorisk Management Certificate program.

  • 06 September 2023
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IUP Collaborating with Indiana Borough to Help Improve Community Health in National Pilot Project

Indiana University of Pennsylvania students and faculty are working with Indiana Borough on a national pilot program to help create stronger and more informed community health, especially in rural areas.

  • 25 April 2023
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Discovering New Species in Central America

Students join faculty in the field by traveling to Honduras to find new species of animals while honoring local populations and their customs. It’s a project that has led to the discovery of more than 20 new species.

  • 10 April 2023
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Biology Premedical Student Accepted into Prestigious Summer Program

Victoria Alao, a Department of Biology premedical student, was accepted into the Summer Premedical Academic Enrichment Program in the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. Students in this program gather from across the country to spend seven weeks strengthening academic skills and enhancing their knowledge in science, scientific writing, and public speaking.

  • Joseph Duchamp
  • 21 March 2023
Student Achievements

From Hoops to Healing: Scholar-Athlete Lends Skills to Fauci’s Team

Joe Rocco ’11 played for a record-breaking IUP basketball team. Now he excels on an even more celebrated squad—the one Anthony Fauci led in the battle against COVID-19.

  • 27 February 2023
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IUP Receives Funding from USDA to Develop Biosafety/Biorisk Management Certificate Program

Indiana University of Pennsylvania has received more than $460,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture to develop a specialized Biosafety/Biorisk Management Certificate program at IUP.

  • 29 August 2022
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Students’ Summer Research—In Their Words (U-SOAR 2022)

Want a preview of the research you can hear about Friday, August 5, at 11:00 a.m. in the HUB Monongahela Room during the Undergraduate Summer Opportunities for Applying Research (U-SOAR) program symposium? Watch as four students explain their projects.

  • 02 August 2022
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Biology Faculty Townsend, Emel, and Tyree Recognized for Research Excellence

Biology faculty members recently won awards from the IUP School of Graduate Studies and Research and the IUP Research Institute.

  • 22 March 2022
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Nealen Receives Auditory Neuroscience Research Funding

The grant from the Pennsylvania Lions Hearing Research Foundation will support research investigating cranial vocal feedback to the human cochlea, in support of human speech development in the hearing impaired.

  • 01 September 2021
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Collaboration Fuels Better, Faster COVID-19 Test

Biology chair Narayanaswamy Bharathan is leading the collaboration between IUP, IRMC, and Takara Bio USA to develop faster COVID-19 tests for rural communities.

  • 09 April 2021

Disease Vector Ecology Lab Launches Tick-borne Disease Dashboard for Indiana County

Public Health major Nicholas Seidel, interning with biology professor Tom Simmons’ Disease Vector Ecology Laboratory, has created a dashboard to visualize blacklegged tick seasonality, infection prevalence of pathogens in the blacklegged ticks, and case counts and incidence rates of Lyme disease in Indiana County.

  • 25 March 2021

Biology Students and Faculty Publish “Consumer Reports-style” Study to Optimize Tick Collection

Biology majors Emily Welch (MS’19), Anna Manges (BS’20), and Nathan Peters (BS ’19) and professors Joe Duchamp and Tom Simmons determined the best fabric for construction of drags used to collect blacklegged ticks which vector the pathogens causing Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Borrelia miyamotoi disease, ehrlichiosis, and Powassan virus disease.

  • 08 February 2021

Surprising Clue in the Puzzling Evolution of Mammalian Middle Ear

Biology professor Shundong Bi and John Wible, curator of mammals at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, describe a new fossil specimen of a haramiyidan from China’s Middle Jurassic epoch that represents an evolutionary “stepping stone” between Mesozoic fossils and living mammals.

  • 28 January 2021

First Non-avialan Dinosaur Found on Embryo-Bearing Nest

Shundong Bi, Department of Biology, and collaborators have discovered a dinosaur preserved sitting atop a nest of its own eggs that include fossilized babies inside.

  • 27 January 2021

Biology Student Earle Wins Viewer's Choice Award at Virtual Student Symposium on the Environment

At the 2020 Student Symposium on the Environment, Sierra Earle, a junior in the IUP Biology Department working with Professor Holly Travis, won the Viewer’s Choice Award for the video she created, “Diatom diversity, abundance, and richness among four different habitat types.”

  • 07 December 2020

Research Instrumentation Grant Awarded to IUP Faculty

Faculty members Eric Morshhauser (Biology), Jonathan Warnock (Geoscience), Mercan Haddad Derfshi (Fashion Merchandising), and Andrea Palmiotto (Anthropology) have been awarded an NSF Major Research Instrumentation grant to purchase a portable structured white light surface scanner to digitize objects into three dimensions.

  • 09 September 2020
Academic Programs

Simmons Interviewed by Allegheny Front on Pittsburgh Parks, Lyme Disease Risk, and COVID-19

Tom Simmons (professor of Biology) was interviewed in Schenley Park by Kara Holsopple of the award-winning public radio station Allegheny Front about Lyme disease risk in the four major Pittsburgh regional city parks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • 09 June 2020
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