Wabash Juniors Join Professor Ingram's NSF-Funded Research Team
Wabash juniors Patrick Garrett and Pete Guiden are getting a summer biology experience rarely available to undergraduate students. The two are working along side Associate Professor of Biology Amanda Ingram.
Ingram's work focuses on the understanding the evolution of chloridoid grasses, a group of approximately 1,500 largely warm-season grasses distributed in the tropics and subtropics.
"Pat and I are doing things that will be reviewed by other scientists," said Guiden. "That changed my entire perspective on this project. It's much more than the previous lab work we've done in introductory biology courses, where we would write a paper to be graded by our professor."
Peru, Parasites, and Global Health
Biology Professor Eric Wetzel spent the spring 2010 semester in Peru studying parasites and diseases. "My interest is to work on a program in global health so that faculty and students might be able to examine through their different disciplinary lenses global health problems common to many regions of the world." Read Professor's blog here.