Recently the Department of Biology celebrated the success of two of its newer members, assistant professors Susan Allen-Gil and Susan Swensen, in attracting large research grants from the National Science Foundation. Allen-Gil’s work will take her and her students to the Arctic to collect ecotoxicological data; Swensen’s research on the evolution of a specific plant species requires travel to the Hawaiian islands.

Home of Inupiat and Grizzly

For each of the next three summers, Ithaca College students will join Allen-Gil, a team of researchers from Oregon State University, and local Inupiat residents on the Arctic tundra...

Nature's Nomads

Susan Swensen's research raises evolutionary questions about plants: what are their ancestral relationships, how did they come to occupy various parts of the globe, how recently did they diverge, how should they be classified...