Field Course with ISER Caribe
Erin Eggleston and Eric Moody developed a field course with the non-profit organization ISER Caribe focused on studying the connections between land and coral reefs.
Department News
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Students Attend the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
This summer, three students attended the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections with the goal of learning more about natural history collections curation, digitization, and research.
Spritzer Lab Publishes Paper on Adult Neurogenesis
Professor Mark Spritzer’s laboratory recently published a paper in the journal Biomolecules describing the effects of the hormone testosterone and its major metabolites upon adult neurogenesis.
A Summer on Appledore Island in the Gulf of Maine
This summer, ENVS-BIOL student Ariel Zhang (‘26) spent a summer on Appledore Island in the Gulf of Maine as part of the Shoals Undergraduate Research Group
At the Nature Conservancy and La Brea Tar Pits in California
Alexis Mychajliw co-taught a conservation paleobiology field course with colleagues from The Nature Conservancy and La Brea Tar Pits in California in July 2025.
Grace Spatafora at the International Association for Dental Research
Grace Spatafora traveled to the International Association for Dental Research meetings in Barcelona, Spain in June with Middlebury College students.
25 Years @ Midd with Susan DeSimone
| by Reprinted from MiddPoints
We recognize Susan DeSimone, Associate Laboratory Professor, Biology, for her 25 years of Service to Middlebury.
Biology faculty members contribute to national camera trap survey
| by Dave Allen
Every September for the past three years two Biology faculty members, Alexis Mychajliw and Dave Allen, head out to the woods around Middlebury to set out motion-activated camera traps to survey mammal activity.
Prof. Spatafora shares three decades of results studying Streptococcus mutans, the causative agent of dental caries
| by Dave Allen
Earlier this month Professor Grace Spatafora presented at the Mark Wilson Conference — a meeting of the Oral Microbiology and Immunology Research group—in Cabo, San Lucas, Mexico.
VideoIncoming faculty member publishes new frog-killing fungus study
| by David Allen
Dr. Andrew Swafford will be joining the Biology Department in Fall 2024.