Points of Pride
The UIS Biology program is proud of:
Great People:
- Exemplary Faculty
- Outstanding Students
- Angela (McCauley) George
- Hillary Rikli
- Hannan Zahid has been accepted into Podiatry school at Kent State University
- Justin Sawyer will be attending SIU School of Medicine Fall 2015
- Graduate students Logan Benedict (Advisors – Drs. Michael Lemke and Keenan Dungey), Melissa Benedict (Advisor – Dr. A. Maria Lemke) and Clayton Buss (Advisors – Drs. Hua Chen and Amy McEuen) presented their thesis research at the Seventh Midwest-Great Lakes Society for Ecological Restoration Chapter Meeting in Chicago, March 27-29, 2015.
- Successful Alumni
- What our Biology Students are saying
Great Facilities:
- Fully-stocked Greenhouse
- Transmission Microscope (above)
- Scanning Electron Microscope (right)
- DNA Sequencer (below)
- State-of-the-art Laboratories and Equipment
- The Therkildsen Field Station at Emiquon
- Photograph Facilities (2 dark rooms, macro- and microphotographic equipment)
- The following Molecular Biology equipment:
- -80° C freezer
- temperature-controled incubators
- laminar-flow hoods
- horizontal agarose-gel electrophoresis
- vertical polyacryalmide gel electrophoresis
- pulsed-field gel electrophoresis
- thermocycle
- Quality light microscopes (polarizing, phase, fluorescence)
- Spectrophotometers (UV, infared, visible, atomic)
- Sampling equipment (aquatic and terrestrial habitats)
- Gas Chromatography & Mass Spectrophotometry
- Ultracentrafuges
- Array of organic and biochemistry analysis equipment
- The following Research Laboratories:
- Aquatic Ecology
- Botany
- Cell Biology
- Electron Microscopy
- Microbial Ecology
- Molecular Biology
Great Opportunities:
- Opportunity to present research at the UIS Science Research Symposium
- Biology Gift Fund for students presenting research at nationwide conferences
- Active Biology Club
- Excellent assistance for Pre-Professional Health Sciences students
- Great chances of success after graduation