SFU Biology Dept

Official twitter feed of the Saint Francis University Biology Department

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Our Biology students have many talents: second year Ecology and Environmental Biology student Nicholas Marcino spent his summer working as a sailing instructor for The Waterfront Center in Oyster Bay, Long Island. Nicholas taught both adults and children how to sail!

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Congrats to Apryl Bambino, who is spending her summer interning at Wildlife Works Incorporated, a wildlife rehabilitation center in Youngwood, PA. In these pictures, she is feeding for 2-week-old baby squirrel that was abandoned along with her brother. #BecomeThatSomeone

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#ConGen2023 is complete! SFU Biology and SFU STEAM are very proud to have hosted this amazing course and to have brought so many incredible conservation geneticists to our campus over the past two weeks.

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The Bio Dept is excited to host ConGen 2023 the next 2 weeks. Starting Thurs, June 22nd, there will be ~nightly presentations on all kinds of topics related to the intersection of conservation biology & genetics/genomics! Presentations can be found here: https://t.co/MuyviIJmts

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Congrats to Angela Donegan, who is interning this summer at Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, NY. She's working on their Hoofstock team. We hope it's a great experience!

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Ben Downey is an Aquarium & Zoo Science student, and this summer he is interning at Lilly Mountain Alpacas. One of the alpacas just gave birth, and Ben was there to be the lead human helper! The baby's name is Lola. Both mom and baby are fine, and Ben got some amazing experience!

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Congrats to Jill Abell, who is spending her summer interning at Bear Branch Nature Center in Westminster, Maryland. In this picture, she is practicing falconry with a female red-tailed hawk!

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Here is a link directly to Dr. Birk's paper! https://t.co/tDMpsNqz8U

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We're thrilled for our own Dr. Matthew Birk, who is lead author on a new Cell paper on RNA editing in cephalopods...and will be featured on NPR's All Things Considered this afternoon!! https://t.co/fYDHKymNja

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Dr. Merry (Biology) along witih Dr. Bintrim (English) and Dr. Clachar (Spanish) accompanied 7 students to volunteer at the Mission of Mercy - Pennsylvania (MOM-n-PA) dental clinic held last Friday and Saturday in Allentown, PA. The clinic saw nearly 1400 patients in two days!

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Congratulations to Sam Miller, Apryl Bambino, Bailey McDougall, and David Kinniburgh who earned their divemaster certifications on our trip to Bonaire this last week. They are each now scuba diving professionals in the industry! This is a big accompishment.

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We're excited to announce that Priya Gupta and Samantha Timm are first recipients of the Joseph Erevelles Biology Pre-Medicine Award! Funded by the Erevelles family in memory of their son, Joseph, it provides support to students to offset the cost of applying to Med School.

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Dr. Gail Drus' Restoration Ecology class helped the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy plant trees at a nearby gamelands. An estimated 600 trees were planted over 3 acres!

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Meet Snurp! She is a Crested Gecko, and the latest addition to the Biology Department's managerie. These animals are native to New Caledonia, although Snurp was born in captivity under the care of alumnus Zach Rozansky and then lived with a faculty member for the past 12 years.

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Congratulations to Grace O'Connell who received a Summer Camp Internship at the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center in Milwaukee Wisconsin! She will be working with environmental educators and teaching future generations about wildlife. Have a great experience, Grace!

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Congratulations to Maggie Biss ('23 Ecology & Environmental Biology)! She has accepted a position as a Watershed Survey Technician job for Trout Unlimited, and will be based on Bartow, West Virginia. Congrats Maggie!

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Congratulations to Jill Abell, Aquarium & Zoo Science major ('25), who will be doing an internship this summer with Bear Branch Nature Center this summer! We hope it's a great experience!

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Congratulations to Jake Maddigan, who was accepted to Shippensburg University's Masters Program, where he'll be studying Fisheries and Ecology. Jake already has his first TA assignment: introductory biology! Our BIOL 110L class will be good preparation for that experience!

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We're thrilled to share that David Kinniburgh, senior Marine Biology student, was accepted the the University of Miami. He will be pursuing a Masters of Professional Science program in Fisheries Management and Conservation. Congrats, David! We're very excited for you!

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Congratulations to Ben Kurtz, a December graduate of the Joseph Erevelles Biology Pre-Medicine Program. This week, Ben was accepted to both the West Virginia University School of Dentistry *and* the University of New England College of Dental Medicine!