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Climate change appears a mixed bag for a common frog
Researcher finds effects of earlier breeding and weather Scientists have found amphibians worldwide are breeding earlier due to climate change, but how that affects species is just now being answered. After warmer winters, wood frogs breed earlier and produce fewer eggs, a ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµâ€¦
5 questions with…48-year biology professor James Zull
James Zull remembers when a single chain separated Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology. The chain was a futile effort to create an illusion of separation. People often stepped right over it to visit someone at the other university, showing that, from the outset, the two…
Biology’s Emmitt Jolly chosen as keynote speaker
Emmitt Jolly, assistant professor of biology, was the keynote speaker at the Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) graduation program. MESA is an academic preparation program for pre-college, community college and university-level students in California. The fifth annual science,…
Biology student spends summer in Rwanda researching mantises
Third-year evolutionary biology major Riley Tedrow scooped up earthworms 2 feet long and fat as his thumb, poisonous beetles that left burning blisters and the real reason he traveled halfway ‘round the globe to Rwanda this summer: mantises—praying and the less devout. Tedrow, 20, who grew up west…
CWRU employee honored as unsung community hero for local outreach
Julia Brown-Allen, graduate coordinator in the biology department at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ, is also Pastor Julia Brown-Allen, a founder of Cleveland’s Integrated Faith Assembly, who has reached out into the streets and shelters to help homeless and battered women and their children for…