While working in the lab of Professor of Biology Steven Juliano, doctoral student Peter Brabant landed the University’s first-ever NIH pre-doc fellowship.
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The renegades of BioMath
What began as a small graduate program at Illinois State in 2007, now boasts a national conference that draws big names in the field, and a brand new scholarly journal.
Costa Rican jungle becomes living classroom for biology students
For 10 days over the Thanksgiving break, 12 students in the School of Biological Sciences came eyeball-to-eyeball with tropical monkeys, snakes, and ants in one of the liveliest places in the world.
Costa Rica trip: Professors offer 7 deep thoughts on the rain forest
This is the fourth story in a five-part series on the School of Biological Sciences’ trip to a Costa Rican rain forest. STATEside is along for the adventure as the students and professors of the Rain Forest Ecology class spend 10 days over the Thanksgiving break at La Selva Biological Station.
Costa Rica diary: A Sunday morning in the tropics
This is the third story in a five-part series on the School of Biological Sciences’ trip to a Costa Rican rain forest. STATEside is along for the adventure as the students and professors of the Rain Forest Ecology class spend 10 days at La Selva Biological Station.
Students study millipede mating habits, other mysteries of rain forest
A group of mating millipedes set off a scramble Friday afternoon just off a trail in a Costa Rican rain forest. A half-dozen Illinois State biology students dug into the mud to gather the squirming arthropods for graduate student Kristin Duffield’s research project.
Welcome to the jungle: Ecology class takes research trip to Costa Rica
The group of Illinois State biology students and faculty arrived Thursday in Costa Rica and will spend 10 days at La Selva Biological Station.