Biology
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Clark U. welcomes nine tenure-track faculty
Clark University welcomes new tenure-track faculty members for the 2014-2015 academic year. David Correll, Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Management, graduated from Iowa State University with a Ph.D. in supply chain management and an M.S. in sustainable agriculture, as well as biorenewable fuels and technology. His research applies elements of operations research and…
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Clark University biology professor receives NSF grant to study lizard limb re-evolution
Philip Bergmann, assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Clark University, has been awarded a $153,155 grant from the National Science Foundation for his three-year project “Developmental and functional mechanisms of complex trait re-evolution: limb loss and gain in skink lizards.” “This grant is a wonderful opportunity to address some fundamental questions in evolutionary biology,” says Bergmann,…
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Clark University biologist’s new research probes ‘gray area’ in science of fungal wood decay
Discoveries by a team of fungal researchers, led by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI and Clark University Professor of biology David S. Hibbett, were released today (June 23) in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper, titled “Extensive sampling of basidiomycete genomes demonstrates inadequacy of the white-rot/brown-rot paradigm…
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The Wonder of Fungus
Part of Clark sophomore Skye Wingo’s “Clark Voices” series: Professor Hibbett is Warren Litsky Endowed Chair in Biology at Clark University.
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Clark University, City of Worcester forge academic health partnership
The City of Worcester and Clark University announce the creation of an innovative Academic Health Department, the result of a partnership combining scholarship and practice to improve public health. The city’s Division of Public Health and the University’s Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise, together through the Academic Health Department, will harness a variety of relationships and, based upon consideration of local needs…
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Accelerated B.A./M.S. in Biology
Biology major and fifth-year master’s student Audrey Seiz ’14 talks about why she likes studying biology at Clark. [Video by Mae Beerman ’14]
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Fungal researchers hold regional meeting at Lasry Bioscience Center
More than 60 scientists gathered at Clark University for MassMyco, the first regional meeting of fungal biologists in New England, held at the Lasry Center for Bioscience, on Oct. 27. Posters and oral presentations covered all aspects of fungal biology, including ecology, genomics, and discussion on all aspects of fungal biology. The MassMyco meeting organizers included Clark University professor…
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Findings point to fungi as prime suspects in fossil fuel mystery
Clark research plays key role in landmark paper on fungal genome evolution; Co-authors of paper published in Science magazine include 10 from Clark, including undergrads
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Hibbett Lab among research teams working on Open Tree of Life quest
A new initiative aims to build a grand tree of life that will bring together everything scientists know about how all living things are related, from the tiniest bacteria to the tallest tree. Clark University professor and fungal evolutionary biologist David Hibbett is one of the scientists erecting the tree — research limb by research…
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My LEEP: Research with Mosquitoes
Matt Warndorf ’12 learned scientific research first hand working on mosquito research with Clark University Biology Professor Todd Livdahl. Learn more about LEEP. WATCH VIDEO