Biology
Faculty
Biology Faculty
The faculty of the Biology Department are dedicated to enhancing their students’ understanding of the living world. They teach a wide variety of Biology courses, mentor students in field and lab research and serve as academic advisors. The Benedictine value of hospitality is seen in the open door policy – if you need to talk with a professor, consider an open door an invitation to drop in for a chat.
Emeritus professors:
- Jeanne Lust – developmental biology, amphibian deformities, hematology
- Stephen Saupe – plant taxonomy, secondary metabolism of plants and fungi
- Marcus Webster – physiological ecology, energetics of birds
- James Poff – entomology, behavioral ecology of social wasps
- Elizabeth Wurdak – biology of rotifers, histology, cell biology
- Larry Davis – geology, paleontology
- Charles Rodell – genetics
- Cheryl Knox – biochemistry