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Biology News Archive


  • Two publications from Biology faculty

    Aug 31, 2022

    Two Biology faculty were co-authors on research published this summer. Dr. John Douglass, Assistant Professor of Biology, was a co-author on a paper published in the in June 2022. This study, in collaboration with the Thaler Lab at the University of Washington, investigated the neuroscience of susceptibility to obesity. Dr. Janet Bester-Meredith, Professor of Biology, was a co-author on a paper published in the in July 2022. This study, in collaboration with researchers at Pomona College, investigated the relative contributions of environmental and biological factors toward sex-specific song development in wrens.

  • Honoring the Class of 2022

    May 30, 2022

    As another academic year draws to a close and we prepare for our first in-person graduation ceremony since 2019, the Biology Department has created a website to recognize and honor the 73 students who will graduate in 2022 with a Biology degree. Through the pandemic and other significant personal and social challenges, these students have persevered to complete their degrees. The Biology faculty are very proud of the Class of 2022, and look forward to seeing what they do next! Congratulations, Class of 2022!


  • SPU alumna publishes research study

    May 20, 2022

    Laarni Aquila (BS Cellular and Molecular Biology, 2019) is the first author on a new study conducted in the lab of Dr. Gwendolyn Wood in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington. The study, published in the journal , extends previous research to establish an animal model to study the pathology of infection by the sexually-transmitted bacteria, Mycoplasma genitalium. Laarni, who was a member of the BioCORE Scholars Program at SPU, will begin graduate school in the fall, in the PhD in Microbiology program at the University of Washington.