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    Students Attend the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections

    August 18, 2025

    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

    August 18, 2025

    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. 

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    A Summer on Appledore Island in the Gulf of Maine

    August 18, 2025

    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 

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    At the Nature Conservancy and La Brea Tar Pits in California

    August 18, 2025

    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.

  • Two students in front of a sign for International Association for Dental Research.

    Grace Spatafora at the International Association for Dental Research

    August 18, 2025

    Grace Spatafora traveled to the International Association for Dental Research meetings in Barcelona, Spain in June with Middlebury College students.

  • Field Course with ISER Caribe

    August 18, 2025

    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. 

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    Biology faculty members contribute to national camera trap survey

    May 5, 2024 | 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 gives a talk about her research

    Prof. Spatafora shares three decades of results studying Streptococcus mutans, the causative agent of dental caries

    February 23, 2024 | 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.

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  • Incoming faculty member publishes new frog-killing fungus study

    February 8, 2024 | by David Allen

    Dr. Andrew Swafford will be joining the Biology Department in Fall 2024.

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