Dr. Tom Akre, associate professor of biology, is author of “Troubled Times for Turtles” that appears in the spring 2012 issue of The Piedmont Virginian. Akre “and a group of biologists and students have teamed up with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to preserve wood turtles as an integral part of our Commonwealth’s […]
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David Buckalew and Longwood Biology students Sarah Lucento and Timothy Smith presented posters of their research entitled: “Salmonella species numbers much great than indicator bacteria in environmental waters” and “Use of indicator bacteria for assessment of water: change of a paradigm?” at the Virginia Branch meetings of the American Society for Microbiology (VA-ASM) held at […]
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Rainwater harvesting is a clean, low-energy source of water that can reduce demands of groundwater wells and water treatment plants for a wide variety of applications. The Center for Watershed Protection (CWP) (Ellicott City, MD) and Rainwater Management Solutions (RMS) (Charlottesville, VA) teamed together to develop a project that illustrates how such water can be […]
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Associate Professor Edward Kinman presented a paper at the National Conference of Geographic Education Annual Meeting in Portland, OR on August 4, 2011. Entitled, “Exploring Public Issues: A Geo-Literacy Approach,” the presentation discussed how the Exploring Public Issue through Writing course (GNED 495) promotes geo-literacy by engaging students in the analysis of contentious public issues.
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Kelsey Scheitlin had a chapter published in Hurricanes and Climate Change, Volume 2, Editors: James B. Elsner, Robert E. Hodges, Jill C. Malmstadt, Kelsey N. Scheitlin. Her chapter is titled: A track-relative climatology of Eglin Air Force Base hurricanes in a variable climate.
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Leigh Lunsford and Alix Fink co-authored “Water Taste Test Data,” in the Datasets and Stories section in the peer-reviewed online Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 18, Number 1 (2010). More information is available at the folowing link: www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v18n1/lunsford.pdf
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Consuelo Alvarez participated with faculty from 14 other colleges and universities in the 2010 GCAT Synthetic Biology workshop at Davidson College. Information about the workshop is at the first link below. As a result of the workshop Consuelo co-authored a peer-reviewed paper that can be found at the second link below: http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/insideed/guest_post_gcat_2010 http://www.lifescied.org/cgi/content/full/9/4/399
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Tom Akre received a multi-year $270,000 matching grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s State Wildlife Program (SWG) to develop scientifically-based conservation strategies for the endangered wood turtle in Virginia and on regional National Forests. A video celebrating the ten-year anniversary of SWG was just released and includes a brief clip of this project […]
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Mark Fink received a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality‟s Coastal Zone Management Program for his work on biodiversity assessment of the Living Shore-lines of Longwood’s Hull Springs Farm. Also, his article “Preparing future teachers: Using a SENCER approach to positively affect dispositions toward science” has […]
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Consuelo Alvarez co-authored an article “The Genomics Education Partnership: Successful Integration of Research into Laboratory Classes at a Diverse Group of Undergraduate Institutions” in the online peer-reviewed journal Cell Biology Education-Life Sciences Education.
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