Biology

Coleen Edwards with teachers on the lower Niagara River. Photo credit: Samantha Wrobel.

Professor Coleen Edwards Leads New York Sea Grant Plankton Workshop for Teachers

July 22, 2024

Coleen Edwards, a faculty fellow in biology and environmental sciences at Niagara University, hosted a professional development workshop sponsored by the New York Sea Grant and the Center for Great Lakes Literacy. Twenty teachers and educators representing 17 school districts participated in the two-day workshop, which was held July 18-19, 2024, and focused on plankton, the organisms that form the base of the Great Lakes food web.

Alexandra Kiedrowski received an award for best poster in environmental biology for her research with Dr. William Edwards and Dr. Cassandra Marnocha at the annual Eastern Colleges Science Conference on April 13, 2024.

Niagara University Hosts 78th Annual Eastern Colleges Science Conference

April 16, 2024

Approximately 170 students and faculty from 16 universities, including 19 students from Niagara University’s departments of biology, chemistry, and psychology, participated in the 78th annual Eastern Colleges Science Conference on April 13 at Niagara University. This marks the fifth time Niagara has hosted the forum.

NU Alum Returns to Monteagle Ridge for Seminar Series

March 27, 2024

Dr. Steven Lewis, '12, a former Niagara University biochemistry major and current postdoctoral researcher in the University at Buffalo’s Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, returned to his alma mater to present several lectures as part of NU’s biomedical research laboratory seminar series.

Junior environmental science majors Samantha Wrobel and Bethany Mangioni received research grants from the Rochester Academy of Science. .

Two Niagara University Environmental Science Majors Receive Research Grants

February 7, 2024

Samantha Wrobel, a junior environmental science major from Amherst, N.Y., and Bethany Mangioni, a junior environmental science major from Cheektowaga, N.Y., were two of the nine students chosen to receive research grants from the Rochester Academy of Science. The students were selected based on the scientific merit of their research and the quality of their grant proposals.

Living His Dream

February 6, 2024

He’s been to the highest point in North America, to the southernmost continent in the world, and to an array of locales in between. And while he never imagined his career would take him to such exotic locations—or even that he would live outside of Western New York—Dr. Shawn Vainio, ’99, has learned that if you are willing to work hard, you can achieve your dreams.

Kimberly Alexander Carlo, ’15, M.S.Ed.’17, Shares Passion for Science

November 20, 2023

In November, Niagara University alumna Kimberly Alexander Carlo, ’15, M.S.Ed.’17, received the prestigious national Milken Educator Award, hailed as the "Oscars of Teaching." Alexander Carlo, a seventh-grade science teacher in the Lewiston-Porter Central School District, is the first educator in the district to have received this honor, which recognizes outstanding K-12 educators nationwide for their excellence and leadership in the profession.

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