Summer Science Poster Presentations
This program was created by HHMI to "strengthen the national quality of science education for students in the formative stages of their educational careers." (Program Announcement, 2000)
2009-2012 Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program
Click here to learn about Alicia Menezes, a biology major who has been involved in multiple research projects during her time at Amherst.
Although NASA’s announcement Dec. 2 from California hinted at extraterrestrial life, it certainly didn’t prove it. Still, biology professor Patrick Williamson says there’s cause to be excited that scientists may have created a bacterium that uses an element normally considered toxic. Read more here....
Challenging the widespread belief that rare and endangered plants and animals are unhealthy, a new study has found they in fact harbor a lower number and diversity of disease-causing parasites than non-threatened, close relatives of the same family, according to Amherst College biology professor Michael Hood and his research team. Read more here...
It may sound like something out of a Far Side cartoon, but it’s serious science. Amherst College biology professor David Ratner and several of his students have spent this summer examining how Dictyostelium discoideum—a cellular slime mold—behaves. Read more here...
Carl Woese '50 has heavily influenced American thought on evolution. Read this article from the Amherst magazine.
The Copeland Colloquium addressed issues on the ethics and politics of environmentalism. Follow this link to view info about it and related video.
Check out some of the labs in the Adaptation and the Organism class.