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<DIV><div class='article'><a id='MORE'></a><h1 class='ms-rteElement-H1'>​Physiology Fair comes to UW-Stevens Point</h1> <img src=/biology/SiteAssets/images/news/blank.gif style='float:right;'><div class="ExternalClassDC62F2787E074669822F7859EA70B9D1"><div class="ExternalClass0DBDCC5E0A61420F988FCC63C9826BF2" style="font-size:10pt"><p><strong>Physiology Fair</strong></p> <p style="font-size:8pt"><strong></strong>Attention area high school students:<br />Come Participate, Get Recognized, and Be Famous!</p> <p style="font-size:8pt">Careers in the sciences are constantly growing. Take advantage of this opportunity to explore the many different aspects of physiology through a program that works cooperatively with students from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP). The Physiology Fair is an opportunity for you to explore a topic in physiology that interests you, and to share what you learn with the community. Our UWSP undergraduate student sponsors will be there to help you do this. </p> <p style="font-size:8pt">More information <a href="/biology/Pages/Fair/default.aspx">here</a>.​</p></div></div> <br style='clear:both;' /></div></DIV>
<DIV><div class='article'><a id='Engum Award'></a><h1 class='ms-rteElement-H1'>​Engum receives Award.</h1> <img src=/biology/SiteAssets/images/news/YOUR_IMAGE.jpg style='float:right;'><div class="ExternalClass39FD7F9A797E4037ACA34D479687E746"><p>​Jackie Engum, Academic Department Associate for the UWSP Department of Biology, has been recognized with an Outstanding Work Performance Award by the Classified Staff Advisory Council.<br /><br />The Outstanding Work Performance Award recognizes performance far beyond what is normally expected of an employee. It includes taking on additional responsibilities or increased workload, accepting and completing special projects that are not part of the employee’s normal work duties, developing or modifying procedures or exhibiting behavior that enhances the employee’s workplace.<br /><br /> “Without her, the Biology Department would not run,” said Department Chair Chris Yahnke.  “Jackie makes it all possible while making it look smooth and easy.”<br /><br />More here.</p></div> <br style='clear:both;' /></div></DIV>
<DIV><div class='article'><a id='Symposium'></a><h1 class='ms-rteElement-H1'>​Symposium Showcases Collaborative Research</h1> <img src=/biology/SiteAssets/images/news/SymposiumPoster.jpg style='float:right;'><div class="ExternalClass13E6E209DF08437AB493C4FD7FB35EC8"><p>​Students and faculty showcased their collaborative research at the twelfth annual College of Letters and Science Undergraduate Research Symposium on Friday, April 29. A record of more than 400 students, parents, faculty, retired faculty and community members attended.</p> <p><br />“Our annual undergraduate research symposium represents our students and faculty at their very best, fulfilling the college’s goal of focusing on undergraduate education and research,” said Dean Chris Cirmo. “We are proud to highlight the major reason we exist as a college; to cherish and cultivate the special relationship which develops between the student and faculty member through directed research.”</p> <p><br />More here.</p></div> <br style='clear:both;' /></div></DIV>
<DIV><div class='article'><a id='Museum Crawl'></a><h1 class='ms-rteElement-H1'>​Museum of Natural History Open House and “Collection Crawl”</h1> <img src=/biology/SiteAssets/images/news/MuseumNatHistLogo-sm.jpg style='float:right;'><div class="ExternalClass38038B32D943440993977AD879469863"><p>​Guided tours of scientific research and teaching collections will be featured at the Open House of the Museum of Natural History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point on Saturday, March 12.<br /><br />Students will give guided tours of the dozen scientific collections housed within and outside the museum, as well as the Freckmann Herbarium. Tours will also feature the archaeology, anthropology, entomology, geology, herbarium, herpetology, ichthyology, mammalogy, ornithology, paleontology, and parasitology collections. <br /><br />More here.<br /></p></div> <br style='clear:both;' /></div></DIV>
<DIV><div class='article'><a id='Freire Liverwor'></a><h1 class='ms-rteElement-H1'>​Freire first to catalogue Guatemala’s liverworts</h1> <img src=/biology/SiteAssets/images/faculty/vfreire.jpg style='float:right;'><div class="ExternalClass03EE328A1D3D46B9AF7FBA607454F77D"><p>​Virginia Freire, associate professor of biology and bryophyte curator at the UWSP Museum of Natural History, spent a year researching Guatemala’s cloud forest bryophytes. She produced the first-ever study of the hepatoflora of a Guatemalan cloud forest.  Her research will be published in the “Journal of Tropical Bryology”.<br /><br />“A considerable portion of the botanical richness of these ecosystems is due to the large number of bryophytes,” said Freire. “Liverworts are most abundant in the epiphytic/epiphyllic biomass of the cloud forest, with my research finding at least 105 species of liverworts from the Biotopo Universitario para la Conservación del Quetzal (BUCQ) in the highlands of central Guatemala.” Epiphytic plants grow on other plants but are not parasites.<br /><br />More here.</p></div> <br style='clear:both;' /></div></DIV>
<DIV><div class='article'><a id='Aquaculture Gra'></a><h1 class='ms-rteElement-H1'>​Researchers receive federal grant to promote aquaculture industry</h1> <img src=/biology/SiteAssets/images/news/Aquaculture-sm.jpg style='float:right;'><div class="ExternalClassFE202A8B56D3402AB70F674E3F16801A"><p>​A team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has landed a two-year $200,000 U.S. Department of Commerce, Sea Grant, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant to develop a Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-based analysis of sustainable domestic aquaculture development in Wisconsin. </p> <p><br />Christopher Hartleb, professor of biology and co-director of the Northern Aquaculture Demonstration Facility, Keith Rice and Doug Miskowiak of the GIS Center, and Sarah Kaatz of UW-Extension will develop GIS-based predictive aquaculture farm models to establish a road map for the Wisconsin aquaculture industry. The results of this project will generate culture and system-specific models to help extension personnel, land-use managers, fish culturists, businesses, and agriculture and natural resource specialists to evaluate potential fish farm locations in Wisconsin.</p> <p><br />More here.</p></div> <br style='clear:both;' /></div></DIV>
<DIV><div class='article'><a id='Hawk Migration'></a><h1 class='ms-rteElement-H1'>​Rosenfield, student to publish hawk migration research.</h1> <img src=/biology/SiteAssets/images/news/HawkResearch-sm.jpg style='float:right;'><div class="ExternalClass28D7F7351B6846618E5EEE16E1A27ADE"><p>​“Shift to Later Timing of Autumnal Migrating Sharp-shinned Hawks,” will be published in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology.  Robert Rosenfield, professor of biology and world-renowned Cooper’s hawk expert, biology major Jenna Cava, and Dan Lamers of Waupaca, collaborated on the work. <br /><br />Cava’s work took place last semester when she was a freshman honors student intern with her adviser Rosenfield.   “For a true freshman to have co-authored such a piece speaks highly of Jenna and her abilities and talents,” said Rosenfield. “In over 20 years of publishing peer-reviewed manuscripts with undergraduates as co-authors, this is the very first time that a freshman was involved with such an endeavor.”<br /><br />More here.</p></div> <br style='clear:both;' /></div></DIV>
<DIV><div class='article'><a id='Caporale Lectur'></a><h1 class='ms-rteElement-H1'>​Caporale to present public lecture on Lyme disease.</h1> <img src=/biology/SiteAssets/images/faculty/dcaporal.jpg style='float:right;'><div class="ExternalClassB969DB63632C45268F89266F67CF92D5"><p>​Diane Caporale, professor of biology at the UWSP, will look at the growing threat of Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases at the third lecture of the 2010-2011 College of Letters &amp; Science Community Lecture Series.<br /><br />Caporale’s presentation, “What is Your Risk of Contracting Lyme Disease and Other Tick-borne Diseases in Central Wisconsin?” is free and open to the public on Thursday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m. in the Stevens Point Area Senior High School Auditorium.<br /><br />She will examine the growing threats of tick-borne diseases and what can be done to minimize exposure to ourselves and families. <br /><br />More here.</p></div> <br style='clear:both;' /></div></DIV>
<DIV><div class='article'><a id='soy research'></a><h1 class='ms-rteElement-H1'>​Students publish soybean research</h1> <img src=/biology/SiteAssets/images/news/RyanFraschCourtneyWeigand.jpg style='float:right;'><div class="ExternalClass5E291BFDE4FD49278E8736DB62CCA8A9"><p>​Recent UWSP Department of Biology graduates Ryan Frasch and Courtney Weigand have published “Molecular Mapping of 2 Environmentally Sensitive Male-Sterile Mutants in Soybean” in the Journal of Heredity.  Their research was conducted at UWSP under the guidance of professor Devinder Sandhu, and with collaborators at Iowa State University.<br /><br />“It is a great satisfaction to see our students succeed,” said Sandhu.<br /><br /> The article can be viewed here.</p></div> <br style='clear:both;' /></div></DIV>
<DIV><div class='article'><a id='SandhuStudents'></a><h1 class='ms-rteElement-H1'>​Sandhu Works with Students on $1.5 million Research Grant</h1> <img src=/biology/SiteAssets/images/news/sandhu-students.jpg style='float:right;'><div class="ExternalClassAACC3B5A2A404F6D9228C668FCF89AB4"><p>​Devinder Sandhu, Associate Professor of Biology at University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, was awarded a $1.5 million grant by the National Science Foundation for his part in the global research effort to study and develop dwarf varieties of wheat that are drought resistant. Sandhu is working with scientists in developed and developing nations like India and Pakistan to identify and test the genes in wheat that would ultimately lead to increased yields.  In simple terms, the goal of the research is to help feed people around the world.<br /><br />Professor Sandhu works very closely with several students including Jon-Paul W. Ciszewski, Joshua Rogers, Eric Wermedal, Jordan Baumbach, Jaydeep Raval, and Alina Ott (winner of the Barry M. Goldwater National Science Scholarship).<br /><br /> “The students do everything,” Sandhu says, “But I’m here all the time if they ever need help.”  Sandhu notes that his name is at the very end of the list of authors in a recently published scientific paper. He explains that his students receive all the credit because they deserve it.<br /><br />More <a href="/COLS/Newsletters/files/To%20the%20Point%20-%20Nov%202010.pdf">here</a> and here.<br /></p></div> <br style='clear:both;' /></div></DIV>
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