James Ensor
Class of 2017
Zoey Chittick
Class of 2016
Maxwell Wheeler
Class of 2018
Junior biology major and Natural Science Fellow Alec Garfield completed training in Spring 2020 to become a certified Local Phenology Leader through Nature’s Notebook. Alec is currently working with faculty mentor Dr. Niky Hughes (Associate Professor of Biology) to establish the Mariana Qubein Botanical Garden and Arboretum as an official monitoring site within the National […]
HPU Biology undergraduate research assistants, under the leadership of Dr. Veronica Segarra, have published a scientific paper in BMC Research Notes titled, “Kinetic assay of starvation sensitivity in yeast autophagy mutants allows for the identification of intermediary phenotypes”. In this paper, the Segarra Lab highlights a new powerful and practical method to assess starvation sensitivity, […]
Dr. Veronica Segarra has published an editorial in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell. Entitled “Optimizing your undergraduate teaching as you would an experiment: developing the next generation of cell biologists,” Dr. Segarra and coauthors highlight the American Society for Cell Biology’s Declaration on Effective and Inclusive Biology Education. This declaration outlines practical actions […]
If you have ever hiked in the forests of the southeast during winter, you have probably noticed Christmas fern, Polystichum acristochoides. The native evergreen fern exhibits a peculiar behavior– during winter, it lays its fronds flat against the ground. “Flat as a pancake”, adds Dr. Niky Hughes, associate professor of biology at HPU, “and we wanted to know […]
Join us at 3pm, January 25, 2019 for a seminar by NCSU biologist Dr. Fred Gould, who will be giving a guest lecture on the use of genetically-modified organisms in agriculture.
Gina Botsko (B.S. Biology: HPU 2018), Assistant Professor of Biology, Jackson T. Sparks, and collaborators from the University of Richmond and Louisiana State University published a review titled: “Membrane proteins mediating reception and transduction in chemosensory neurons in mosquitoes” in Frontiers in Physiology on Sept. 20, 2018. Dr. Sparks and HPU undergraduate researchers want to identify molecular […]
Students in the Natural Science Fellows Program hosted Dr. Lise Eliot, a distinguished neuroscientist, to discuss her work on sex and gender differences in the brain (or lack thereof). As one aspect of the Fellows program, students exchange ideas and network with world-renowned scientific researchers such as Dr. Eliot, author of “Pink Brain, Blue Brain” […]
Dr. Sandra Cooke recently published a paper entitled “Environmental framing on Twitter: Impact of Trump’s Paris Agreement withdrawal on climate change and ocean acidification dialogue” in collaboration with Dr. Sojung Kim, a communications professor at George Mason University. The study investigated how people discuss the well-known problem of climate change and the lesser-known (but highly […]
Congratulations to the Biology Department’s own Dr. Angela Bauer and Dr. Veronica Segarra for being recipients of two of High Point University’s three new faculty awards! The award announcements were made during HPU’s convocation ceremony on August 19, 2018. Dr. Bauer won the Extraordinary Leadership award and Dr. Segarra won the Innovation and Creativity in […]
