Category: Biology
Daughter’s future good return on investment
For Bill and Debbie Booth, college is a family matter. Since the day daughter Alyson visited Sweet Briar for the first time, the Booths’ life has been pretty much all pink and green.
Butterfly expert to appear on NPR’s ‘Science Friday’
Sweet Briar research professor of biology Lincoln Brower will make an appearance on National Public Radio’s “Science Friday” on April 12. The approximately 20-minute interview with correspondent Flora Lichtman is set to begin around 3:35 p.m
Leading the charge in biology’s new frontiers
Raina Robeva has always appreciated applied mathematics in biology. It’s what she did when modeling the effects of radiation on cell cultures for her master’s degree at Sofia University in Bulgaria.
Waxter speaker lures readers to science with fiction
Writer Barbara Kingsolver charmed an audience of more than 600 people in Murchison Lane Auditorium Thursday night with the same grace and humor she uses to hook readers. Kingsolver presented Sweet Briar College’s 2013 Julia B. Waxter Environmental Forum, an annual lecture series focusing on environmental concerns.
Brower visits monarch colony with former president
Sweet Briar research biologist Lincoln Brower’s most recent trip to observe overwintering monarch butterflies in central Mexico included rewarding highs and distressing lows.
Of mice and philanthropy: A donor’s tale
It’s the people — classmates and lifelong friends, professors and staff — who keep Katherine Powell Heller ’78 connected to Sweet Briar. But lately the mother of two grown daughters says her thoughts are drawn to her college days for reasons she never expected.
Expert tells butterfly’s remarkable story
Lincoln Brower, research professor of biology at Sweet Briar College, will present “The Grand Saga of the Monarch Butterfly” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, in Heuer Auditorium at Sweet Briar’s Guion Science Center.
‘NewsHour’ series features College’s STEM program
Sweet Briar’s STEM teacher development program is featured in a new online video series produced by PBS’s “NewsHour.”
Helping hands in the Philippines
Caroline Tade ’08, a third-year student at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, visited the Philippines, where she helped out at a birthing clinic last summer.
Experts, Sweet Briar make cameos in novel
As author Barbara Kingsolver promotes her latest best-seller in interviews around the country, she mentions the help she received from Sweet Briar research professor of biology Lincoln Brower and his wife, Duberg Professor of Ecology Linda Fink.
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