Faculty/student research projects
Each biology faculty member maintains an active research program involving undergraduates. Students are encouraged to become involved in a research experience with a faculty member as early as freshman year. Many students receive
scholarship funds to support their research endeavors that typically extend from one to three years. Students actively involved in research with faculty members are expected to present the results of their projects at local or national annual conferences. Current faculty research projects include:
Deborah Anderson
- Refinement of the Bridgerian NALMA Biostratigraphy Using Fossil Ischyromyids (rodents)
Anindo Choudhury
- Diversity, phylogenetics (morphological and molecular), biogeography and ecology of parasites
Russ Feirer
- Investigations of cellular responses to stress. Current work involves studies of the genes, enzymes and metabolites (the amino acids proline and derivatives of arginine) involved in a plant cell’s response to dehydration.
James Hodgson
- Carbon Sources to Lakes, the Importance of Terrestrial (Allochthony) Carbon to Aquatic Food webs
- Regime Shifts in Aquatic Ecosystems
- Trophic Casades in Lakes
Results of research projects
Students frequently work closely with faculty members to publish the final results of their research projects in peer-reviewed journals. Some examples:
Anderson, D. K., and Curt Jansen (2005)
Newly discovered partial cranium of Acritoparamys francesci from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming support a change in classification to the Subfamily Paramyinae." Tri-Beta Honorary Society North-Central Region District 1 Convention (abstract).
Feirer, R.P., Hocking, K.L. and P. J. Woods (1998)
Involvement of arginine decarboxylase in the response of Arabidopsis thaliana to osmotic stress. Journal of Plant Physiology 153:733-738.
Hodgson, J.R. and E. Hansen (2006)
Terrestrial vertebrate prey in the diet of largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides in a small north temperate lake. J. Freshwater Ecol. 20: 793-794.
Phythyon, John R. and Rusch, Melissa (2001)
Probiotic Effect of Lactobacillus Isolated From Yogurt on Candida albicans Colonization and Persistence in the Murine GI Tract. American Society for Microbiology 2001 General Meeting (abstract).
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