Meeting People Where They Are
Bobby Harris’08 is part of a diverse, multidisciplinary team serving Baltimore’s most vulnerable citizens during the pandemic. He was drawn to public health as a way of fighting social injustice.
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Build scientific creativity. Design experiments and answer real-world questions.
Clone a gene. Be the first person in the world to discover and publish its sequence.
Test water quality. Collect water samples from the Rock River Lagoon.
Make kimchee. Discover how well different recipes encourage fermentation.
Program a robot. Compare brains and computers.
Biology students become engaged citizens of the world by applying biological principles and methods to real world problems.
Do you want more information about studying Biology at Beloit? Contact Professor Yaffa Grossman, Chair of the Department of Biology.
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Innovator
If designer and biologist Aaron Nesser’11 has his way, your next pair of tennis shoes won’t last thousands of years in a landfill.
Fighting Covid on Multiple Fronts
Public health professional Shanna Dell’10 typically works with nurse-centered HIV pre-exposure prevention, but Covid has changed everything. In her new roles, she’s taking inspiration from fellow nurses who were working with HIV patients long before the disease’s transmission was understood.
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