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Overview
Faculty
Courses
Major
Opportunities &
Activities
Careers
& Alumni
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Experience
Biology
RESEARCH
 The goal
of faculty-student collaborative research is to develop mentoring
relationships through scholarship. Students will collaborate
with faculty members and learn to ask scientific questions,
develop hypotheses, and design experiments to test hypotheses.
Often, students have the opportunity to communicate results
to the scientific community through refereed journal articles
or presentations at scientific meetings. INTERNSHIPS
There
are many opportunities for students interested in a particular
career path to experience what is actually involved in the
day by day activities of the profession of interest. At an
off campus site, students participate in research or service
opportunities that provide experience in the professional
context. Most return with a clearer vision of what it means
to be a health professional, researcher, or a biologist in
one of the many ways that a graduate with a degree in Biology
can serve Christ and His Kingdom. HNGR
The
HNGR Program includes a 6 month experience, usually in a foreign
culture, in which the student works with an on-site agency.
The student also carries out an individual research project
that is mentored by a member of the Biology faculty. The faculty
member makes a visit to the student at least once during the
period of the HNGR internship. Biology students have done
research projects in such places as Honduras, Tanzania, Côte
d’Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. HEALTH
PROFESSIONS
Biology
students interested in health professions often take SCI 229
Internship/Seminar in the Health Professions an internship
spending time "shadowing" a health professional.
This provides insight into what is involved in practicing
the day by day aspects of the profession. OTHER
OFF-CAMPUS EXPERIENCES
The Biology
Department receives information about many off campus internships
that provide experiences in many aspects of the professional
practices of biologists. Students often spend summers or semesters
at off campus sites and experience what is really involved
in working in research labs, clinics, environmental agencies
or other sites in which a student with a liberal arts degree
in biology could serve after graduation. Most return with
both confidence that they have been well prepared and a clearer
vision of what they can do in the future. Below is a brief
list of where our Biology Majors have participated in off
campus internships recently.
- Medical/molecular
- University
of Nebraska Medical Center
- Harvard
- Loyola
- University
of Chicago
- Argonne
National Laboratory
- Environmental
- Morton
Arboretum
- Smithsonian
Environmental Research Center
- AuSable
TEACHING
ASSISTANTS
The biology
department employs twenty to thirty students each semester.
Most work as paid teaching assistants, but student employees
also manage the greenhouse, care for research organisms and
aquarium fish in display tanks, wash glassware, and help with
administrative duties in the department. For students with
a career interest in teaching biology, working as a teaching
assistant can provide them with valuable practical experience.
Teaching assistants spend between six and ten hours a week
working closely with instructors in introductory and upper
level biology courses. Their responsibilities include setting
up for lab courses, working closely with professors, helping
during classroom instruction, grading assignments, and being
available to answer students’ questions outside of class.
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