Stories about "Biology"
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Bates bio students join greenhouse-gas project to help squelch the bovine belch
Tuesday, June 8, 2021 2:14 pm
In partnership with a Maine research lab, an innovative Bates biology course gives students up-close experience with cows and dung — all in service to a project to reduce greenhouse gas.
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Shields up! Bates helping to ease PPE shortage
Friday, April 3, 2020 7:24 am
A Bates biology professor has a notable role in responding to a tough problem created by COVID-19: the shortage of personal protective equipment.
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Bates STEM faculty offer insights to students about coronavirus outbreak
Thursday, February 6, 2020 11:38 am
From perspectives of mathematics and microbiology, Bates professors guide students to better understanding of this winter's novel coronavirus.
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Investing in student success: Meet Bates faculty new to the tenure track in 2019
Thursday, September 19, 2019 10:40 am
Five professors newly appointed to the tenure track have found that their values, interests, and goals are reflected in the Bates community.
![Professor of Biology April Hill in her Carnegie Science Lab, Room 404, training two "new scientists." “For me, it’s like being a coach," she says. Names forthcoming.The two students in the lab with Hill are Sara King ’21 of Newton Center, Mass., and Jasmine Nutakki ’21 of Augusta, Maine. Hill says: “They were learning to use a technique called the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify genes from freshwater sponges. Both students (and some others) will be working over short term on a project funded by my NSF grant to study the gene networks involved in animal:algal symbioses. In this case, the animals are sponges and the algae are Chlorella.”](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2019/05/190425_April_Hill_lab_0565-400x267.jpg)
Hill and Wageners team up to ensure that all STEM students thrive at Bates
Thursday, May 2, 2019 1:57 pm
Students in science and math are entitled to thrive, not just survive, says April Hill, the Wagener Family Professor for Equity and Inclusion in STEM.
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Amidst sharks and coral reefs, Kelton McMahon ’05 unravels a paradox as old as Darwin
Thursday, January 17, 2019 3:43 pm
Over the course of his career, Kelton McMahon ’05 has developed tools that can tell you what an animal eats, by looking at the atoms in its body.
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A tuna tournament helps Michaela Pinette ’19 get in tune with purposeful work
Friday, August 10, 2018 10:29 am
Michaela Pinette ’19 wasn't expecting a summer of sifting through bloody tuna parts for science, nor enjoying it so much. That's the beauty Purposeful Work.
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Bates Club of Antarctica: It’s a whale’s world
Friday, May 11, 2018 9:22 am
Over 20 years and 32 trips, Ari Friedlaender '96 has become a leading expert on Antarctic whales — and an outspoken advocate for their environment.
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Q&A: Ben Tonelli ’18 creates model showing how songbirds spread ticks
Friday, March 2, 2018 10:34 am
"Until Ben’s model, we haven’t had a sense of where the redistribution might occur and the possible scale of that effect,” says his adviser.
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What I Mean When I Say: ‘Host,’ with Lee Abrahamsen
Thursday, November 2, 2017 9:55 am
You can host a party. You can host a TV show. But in Bates biologist Lee Abrahamsen’s profession, you’re more likely to host a parasite.