Shepherd University Biology

05/13/2025

The Biology program announced its annual student awards to coincide with commencement. Congratulations to our deserving students!

EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH Awarded to a student who demonstrates excellence in their senior research and/or research with a faculty member. Awarded to Erika Voges.

LEADERSHIP AWARD Recognizes a biology student who has shown outstanding leadership through innovation, collaboration, and service that positively impacts their peers and the broader scientific community. Awarded to Lillian Robbins.

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD Presented to an undergraduate science student who has achieved exceptional academic performance, demonstrating consistent excellence and dedication in their coursework and intellectual pursuits. Awarded to Liam Dardick.

03/21/2024

Dr. Sipe's developmental biology class celebrated QuailFest today in lab, observing live quail embryos at three different developmental stages.

09/29/2023

09/22/2023

Students in introductory biology observed living Euglena in pond water samples this week!

08/25/2023

Congratulations to former Shepherd undergraduates Alex Banks and Emily Behrmann whose work in Dr. Laura Robertson's lab was recently published in the Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Sciences!

08/12/2023

We're proud of our students from the Reynolds lab who presented their summer research projects at the 16th Annual WVU Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium at West Virginia University!

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07/26/2023

Dr. Campany presented collaborative research today at the Botanical Society of America conference in Boise. He presented data on the ecophysiology of plants grown in aquaponics ( Farm) and what that means for food security. Shoutout to a great undergraduate team from our Biology and Environmental Science departments that performed the research.

07/07/2023

Ventral view of a gastrulating fruit fly embryo taken on our confocal microscope. Green fluorescence labels all nuclei in the developing embryo. The black and white panel shows visible light. The right panel is an overlay. The curved cephalic furrow that divides the head (toward the top) from the rest of the body is marked with an arrow.

Interested in Neuroscience? Ask your advisor about new upcoming research opportunities here at Shepherd!

06/01/2023

As part of a multi-institutional grant, Dr. Sipe has received funding from the National Science Foundation to establish a neuroscience research program for Shepherd students. Congratulations, Dr. Sipe!

Faculty and students are excited about the role Shepherd will play in neuroscience research that will take place under a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), called the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).

The grant will provide stipends for students who help conduct research during the academic year and in the summer. It will also give them opportunities to do research at other institutions participating in the grant.

Read more: https://tinyurl.com/3shhaddz

05/30/2023

The first image captured by two of our summer research students, Erika Voges and Ronaida Ammari, using our new Leica confocal microscope. This fluorescent image is a single lobe of the fruit fly brain with cell membranes stained red. The large cells in the image are neural stem cells that divide during development to produce the cells of the brain. The smaller cells are the neurons and glia that make up the central nervous system of the fly.

05/07/2023

Congratulations to our 2023 graduating class!