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Dr. Jack Feminella appointed new Department Chair


Jack Feminella

Dr. Jack Feminella was appointed the new Biological Sciences Department Chair by Dean Schneller and officially assumed the post on October 1, 2008. Dr. Feminella is an aquatic ecologist whose research focuses on the influence of environmental factors regulating the structure and function of stream communities. He ably served for 9 years as the departmental Graduate Program Officer before being appointed Department Chair.  

 

 

 

 

Dr. Jim Barbaree steps down as Department Chair


James Barbaree accepting plaque

Dr. Jim Barbaree, who guided the Department of Biological Sciences through a challenging time of great growth in the numbers of faculty and students, has stepped down from being Chair after six years of steadfast service. Dr. Barbaree returns to his research in Microbiology in association with the Food Detection Peak of Excellence. The department wishes to thank Dr. Barbaree for his many years of diligence and dedication.

 

 

Dr. Cobine joins Biological faculty



Dr. Paul Cobine joined the Department of Biological Sciences faculty in the Summer, 2008 semester as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology. Dr. Cobine has a PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia and and joins us after being a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Utah. His research focuses on the mechanisms for the recruitment of metals into mitochondria and their subsequent insertion, as cofactors, into the multi-subunit complexes of the electron transport chain.