News & Events

This is your first stop for updates and news about the John Carroll University Department of Biology.

• Looking for a summer research experience? Paid opportunities are available but finding them can be challenging. Here are some helpful hints for finding opportunities in the sciences and opportunities specifically for those interested in ecology and environmental science.
  
  
• New summer course offered in Entomology. In this 4 credit, 400-level lecture and lab course, students will learn about the anatomy, physiology, and development; systematics, taxonomy, and identification; and ecology and behavior of insects and other arthropods. This course will be taught Summer I. For more information, contact Dr. Hickerson.
  
  
• Sean Harrington (M.S. Candidate) was awarded a Charles Stearns Grant-in-Aid in Herpetology to visit the collections at the California Academy of Sciences this spring.  This grant is offered to graduate students who have needs to visit their world-class collection of reptiles and amphibians, and it covers airfare and room and board during the stay. 

• This summer, Dr. Sheil's Scientific Illustration students developed a new exhibit on Human Evolution. Graduate students Lauren Baldarelli, Brad Bartelme, Laura Miscoe, and Radka Muhlsteinova worked together to produce the exhibit, which incorporates illustrations, an evolutionary hypothesis, and natural history information about the course of human evolution. The exhibit is on display on the first floor of the West Wing of the Dolan Center. The class would like to thank Dr. Scott Simpson (CWRU) for his help with constructing the cladogram used in the exhibit.