Our outstanding faculty, state-of-the-art lab facilities, close proximity to field sites, and small class sizes provide our students hands-on experience across the full range of modern biology disciplines, from the sub-cellular level to the biosphere.
Lisa Mangiamele
Visiting Asst. Professor of Biology
Email: lmangiamele@middlebury.edu
Phone: work802.443.5489
Office Hours: Thursday 12:30 - 2:30 pm
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Matthew Landis
Visiting Scholar in Biology
Email: rlandis@middlebury.edu
Phone: work802.443.3484
Office Hours: Fall 2012:
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The goals of the Biology department are to provide students opportunities to explore the diversity of life within the tradition of a liberal arts education.
Our outstanding faculty, state-of-the-art lab facilities, close proximity to field sites, and small class sizes provide our students hands-on experience across the full range of modern biology disciplines, from the sub-cellular level to the biosphere.
About the Neuroscience Program
Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field, drawing upon biology, psychology, and philosophy to understand the mind, how the brain functions, and the role of the nervous system in normal and abnormal behavior.
The goals of the Biology department are to provide students opportunities to explore the diversity of life within the tradition of a liberal arts education.
Matthew Landis
Visiting Scholar in Biology
Email: rlandis@middlebury.edu
Phone: work802.443.3484
Office Hours: Fall 2012:
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As senior Alexa Warburton opens the door to the cephalopod lab, a pungent smell escapes into the third-floor hallway of Middlebury College’s McCardell Bicentennial Hall. “It smells like the ocean,” she comments. And it should. Warburton, a senior biology major from Hopkinton, N.H., is spending her summer studying a member of the cephalopod family, Octopus bimaculoides . Her goal is to study the way these saltwater creatures learn, thereby furthering the already-extensive body of research on invertebrate intelligence.
Helen Young (Biology) and her students have recently been exploring the effects of landscape on pollinator: How does the presence of forest around a field affect the number and diversity of bee pollinators? What about corn fields? Or roads and rivers and cities? This work has strong relevance in Addison County, an area heavily reliant on agriculture for its well-being.