Tag Archives: Ecology

An Ongoing Journey to Identify Cave Bacteria

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Diana Desai

Transferring from a community college, the amount of lab work and experience that I had been exposed to, was always limited to the curriculum of the classes that I was enrolled to take in a given semester. In all honesty, … Continue reading →

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Identifying Bacteria Isolated from Sorcerer’s Cave

Posted on May 10, 2017 by Whitney Brantley

Editor’s Note: This blog was composed by Whitney Brantley and Claire Shudde through a research collaboration with Olivia Dahl and Stephanie Sariles. Whitney:  As a biology major at ACU, students are given several opportunities to get involved with the department. One … Continue reading →

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ACU Wildlife Society Spotlight

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Joshua Brokaw

This January The Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society featured the ACU Wildlife Society and our research projects in its monthly newsletter!

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Monitoring Wildlife in the Southern Rolling Plains Using a Camera-Trap at Water Catchment Stations

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Riley Morrow

In the spring semester of 2016 I joined in a research project, which was just starting to formulate, with another student. Other than classroom-based research and presentations, this was my first time being involved in a research project. This particular … Continue reading →

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Phylogenetic Analyses of Species in Thomasomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae)

Posted on November 28, 2015 by Jeremy Aymard

My research experience with the biology department has certainly been a memorable part of my time here at ACU. Starting in January, I jumped in on a project of Dr. Lee’s, a portion of which he delegated to Dr. Brokaw … Continue reading →

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Bat Research Class

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Kimberly Burt

I began research with Dr. Brokaw and Dr. Lee at the beginning of Fall 2013. They wanted to start an entirely new project with me, so a lot of the beginning stages were simply figuring out what to research. Our … Continue reading →

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Mentzelia and DNA

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Christian Hofsommer

During the last year, I’ve been doing research with Dr. Brokaw on the genetics of species in the genus Mentzelia. This research involves sequencing the DNA of these plants and looking for similarities and differences between multiple species in this … Continue reading →

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Biology prof discovers new animal species

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Amber

As originally posted in “ACU News” on October 08, 2013: While leading a student expedition in Ecuador’s Sangay National Park in 2010 Dr. Tom Lee, professor of biology, discovered a new species of opossum. Lee, along with one ACU student and one … Continue reading →

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A Continued Experience of a Lifetime

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Tina Johnson

Part Two: Fieldwork (With Some Additional Adventures)  So, back to our adventure! After leaving the Evolution Conference on Tuesday evening, we returned to our campsite to prepare for the proceeding days. Accordingly, the next morning we said goodbye to Snowbird … Continue reading →

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Wrap up – Sort of

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Samantha

Well, this could be my last blog for this project, or not! Although we have worked a lot on pushing to complete our research it was just not feasible to get all of our samples run before graduation, or the … Continue reading →

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