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  • Professor of Biology | Department of Biology | siegesam@plu.edu

    . 17, 2016: 204-214. Siegesmund, Amy. "Teaching Epidemiology and Principles of Infectious Disease using Popular Media and the case of Typhoid Mary." Course Source Vol. 3, 2016: 1-4. Accolades American Society for Microbiology Carski Award for Undergraduate Education 2023 Pacific Lutheran University Diversity Center Spirit of Diversity Award in Mentoring 2020 2019-2020 Faculty Excellence Award in Service, PLU 2014-2015 Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching, PLU July 25, 2023 American Society for

  • Want to learn more about UT Southwestern Medical Center Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF)?  SURF is one of five research intensive programs offered at UT Southwestern. Complete details can be found at www.utsouthwestem.edu/SURF . This website also provides links to: SURF-Stem Cell, Quantitative and Physical…

    Institute for the Study of Kidney Disease (SURISKD). The attached UT Southwestern SURF flyer also provides more information. Read Previous UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Read Next Lehigh University PhD Student Virtual Open House LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15, 2024 Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October 30, 2024 2025 Fred Hutch Summer Undergraduate Research Program

  • Biology is an adventure! It’s solving problems about living organisms. As a student of biology you must have a curiosity about living things and a foundation for questioning, exploring,

    Biology at PLU?The PLU Biology Department faculty members are trained across a broad spectrum of knowledge, from molecular biology to ecosystem ecology, and have professional teaching and research expertise with a full range of organisms: viruses, bacteria, fungi, plants and animals (including humans). Professors, not teaching assistants, teach the laboratory sections and they are available outside of class for conversation and advising. The diversity of department courses provides broad coverage of

  • Dear Campus Community: It is with a heavy heart that I write to inform you of the sudden passing of Professor of Biology Dr. William Teska, who was found in his home on Saturday, June 25, deceased of natural causes.  Bill leaves a lasting legacy…

    helped establish an ecological network of the more than 100 UNESCO-designated biosphere nature reserves of the Western Hemisphere for exchanging information on conservation and sustainable uses of biodiversity.  Prior to that, he served as program coordinator and analyst for the U.S. Agency for International Development, where he managed a $20 million project promoting global sustainable development through programs linking universities in 28 countries. His interest in mammalian ecology led him to

  • Global health: Why does it matter? If public health was a fashion show, global health would be the new black. It’s hot. But what is global health, exactly? And why does it matter? Mark Twain once complained that everybody talks about the weather but nobody…

    then, all this really didn’t much matter – at least when measured in terms of money, political will or media attention. AIDS, of course, has been a big and highly visible part of the global health scene for the past quarter century. But the AIDS pandemic exists in its own category, with a unique set of political and social circumstances that have guaranteed this particular infectious disease a high level of public attention and concern. In a way, AIDS both helped educate people about the global

  • Research Opportunities Available in the Dallas, TX  Region This Coming Summer  University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center is offering a number of paid summer undergraduate programs from June 5th through August 11, 2017.  These programs relate to: Chemistry (QP-SURF) Biomedical research ( SURF )…

    Summer 2017 Research Opportunities in Dallas, TX Posted by: alemanem / October 28, 2016 October 28, 2016 Research Opportunities Available in the Dallas, TX  Region This Coming Summer  University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center is offering a number of paid summer undergraduate programs from June 5th through August 11, 2017.  These programs relate to: Chemistry (QP-SURF) Biomedical research (SURF) Cancer research (SURF-Cancer) Kidney disease research (SURISKD). The application deadline

  • University of Pittsburgh is pleased to announce the 10 th  summer for our REU program in computational biology and would hope that you would also be willing to recommend another student(s) for our program this year.  More information and our 2019 program flyer can be…

    20 – July 26, 2019 Student Support:  $5750 stipend, housing*, and travel* *housing and travel not guaranteed for Pitt students Read Previous UW SHPEP (Summer Health Professions Education Program) Summer 2019 Read Next Biochemical Markers Summer Fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15, 2024 Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October

  • Last year Martha Spieker ’16 was ASPLU president, now she works at Congress.

    health summits (official gatherings of Ministers of Health), including CARICOM, PAHO and African Union. He has served as an expert advisor to many Canadian provincial and U.S. state regulatory agencies, Health Canada, Canadian Public Health Agency, U.S. Center for Disease Control, the U.S. Veterans Administration and the U.S. Department of Health and Human services. He has 17 years experience as a licensed practicing neonatologist in Canada and the U.S. Dr. Graven has been faculty at the University

  • PLU does not offer a Marine Biology major. Instead, the PLU Biology Department offers general biology degrees (both a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts) to provide students with a strong foundation to specialize later in graduate school or out in the working…

    in the other years, a faculty member who actively does Marine Biology research, and connections with local organizations with whom we’ve had students do internships (like Harbor Wildwatch in Gig Harbor). We also have coursework in other areas relevant to Marine Biology (Ecology, Natural History of Vertebrates, and Evolution, for example) and have another faculty member who studies freshwater fish and their ecosystems. Overall, our graduates interested in marine biology have gone off and have been

  • Visiting Assistant Professor | Department of Biology | cmschiller@plu.edu | 253-535-7004

    & Paleoenvironments Research Projects Paleobotany and paleoenvironments on Cenozoic to Quaternary timescales; Disturbance ecology of ancient ecosystems; Vegetation response to ancient climate change. Selected Presentations Zahajská, P., Stamm, F.M., Baldermann, A., Schiller, C.M., and Conley, D., The stubborn silica: Undissolved diatom frustules during sequential leaching: Isotopes in Biogenic Silica, Louvain-La-Neuve, BELGIUM (May 2024) American Geophysical Union (Lowe, A.J., Schmitz, M.D., Dillhoff, R

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