Biology Department
Past Department Announcements
Emeritus Biology Professor Helen Stafford was named a Phytochemistry Pioneer at the 2008 meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America. An article describing her scientific contributions appeared in the Decmber, 2008 issue of Phytochemistry.(download the pdf; this is the publisher's website, so a subscription is required from computers not on the campus network). [summer 2008]
Reed's 2008 Commencement ceremony included an address by Biology Dept. alumn and environmental writer Michelle Nijhuis (Reed '96).[May 2008]
Biology asst. professor Suzy Renn has been awarded $42,000 from the MJ Murdock Charitable Trust for her investigation of rapidly evolving genes in the East African Cichlid species flock.[May 2008]
Reed College honored pioneering geneticist Stanley Fields with the Vollum Award for Distinguished Accomplishment in Science and Technology at its August convocation ceremony. [Aug. 2007]
Biology professor Janis Shampay has been awarded $344,000 from the NSF to study telomeric protein function in Xenopus spp. [May 2006]
Biology professor Peter Russell has been awarded $150,000 from the NIH to study virus-host interactions.[Dec. 2006]
Reed College awarded five-year NSF S-STEM grant of $356,388 to support promising math and science students with financial need. [Oct. 2006]
Biology stockroom manager Kristine Gunter and her dog, Rugby, were featured in a Tonight Show segment when Tom Greene visited the Biology Building basement to watch Riley skateboarding. [Sept. 2006]
